A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 122
122 A critical Review of the Pamphlet—‘f a te h -e-Qadian’ The desire of my heart at every moment, is to kiss Your revealed Book And circuit around the Holy Quran, for this alone is my Ka‘bah. (Qadian ke A ryah A u r Hamm) His father used to advise him to spend less time in study, in case it affected his health. Whenever his father asked him to engage in business or seek employment he would reply, ‘I have become employed with God’. Because of repeated urgings by his father — and in view of the command of the Holy Quran to obey parents — he joined the Civil Service in Sialkot which he did not do for long. Even during the period of this employment, his real vocation continued to be worship, austerity, study of religious books and deliberation over the Holy Quran. For instance, Maulav i Sir a jud-D i n, father of Maulav i Ghazanfar ‘Al i Kh a n, editor of daily Zami n d a r newspaper, has given his personal testimony about the life, at that time, of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , thus: Around 1860–61 AD Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was employed as a clerk in Sialkot when his age was 22 or 23 years and I can give testimony as an eye-witness that in his youth he was a pious and righteous man. ( Zami n d a r, June 8, 1908, India) Noticing the righteousness of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his relationship with God, his father used to observe: