The Devotion of Life — Page 452
452 Hadrat Sahibzada Mirza Sharif Ahmad ra His birth was one of the abundant divine signs in support of the Promised Messiah’s as truthfulness and eventual victory. He was born in Qadian on 24 th May, 1895. Many were the glad tidings received about him by the Promised Messiah as. Mentioning a revelation of January 1907, the Promised Messiah as said: “I saw Sharif Ahmad in a dream wearing a turban with two men standing nearby. One of them pointed towards Sharif Ahmad and said that there was a king who had arrived. The other said that he had still to become a ‘Qazi’ (judge). ” The Promised Messiah as said ‘Qazi’ is also called an arbitrator. A Qazi is he who upholds the truth and rejects falsehood. (Al Hakam 10 th January 1907) He was an enviable ‘Waqif-e-Zindagi’. He shone like a star for his blessed family and the Jama’at for three quarters of a century. He was eminent in the Jama’at both for his learning and practicality. He served as Nazar (Director) in different Nazarats (Departments). Among his accomplishments is compiling and saving all the records available in Qadian of the year of Ba’ait (1889) and the names of those Companions who had an audience with the Promised Messiah as that year. During the last stages of his life as Nazar Islah-o-Irshad , he organised the annual Jalsas smoothly despite being afflicted with a nerve disorder and gout. He died in Rabwah on 26 th December 1961 at the age of 66 ½ years.