Life of Ahmad — Page 140
140 CHAPTER 13 AT HOSHIARPUR Ahmad as had intended, in 1884, to go to Sojanpur, a small village in the district of Gurdaspur, with a view to spending 40 days in a quiet place in meditation and prayer and then to make a tour of India. My uncle, M. Abdullah Sanauri ra , had asked to be allowed to accompany Ahmad as in that holy undertaking. But time passed and Ahmad as waited for the Divine light to guide him in the selection of the place to which he should go. He really wanted from God a mighty sign which he could show to the world. At last, in January 1886, the Word of God came to him saying that he would get what he wanted in Hoshiarpur. So on the basis of this revelation he decided to go to Hoshiarpur. Ahmad as wrote to Sh. Mehr Ali, a leading Muslim of Hoshiarpur, that he wanted to stay for two months at Hoshiarpur; and he asked him if he could find for him a two-storied house on the outskirts of the town. Sh. Mehr Ali had a house of his own which answered the purpose of Ahmad as. It was known as his T aweila.