Life of Ahmad — Page 216
VISIT TO ALIGARH as 216 week long at Aligarh before he returned to Ludhiana, but made no speech there. Ahmad as returned to Qadian about April 18th, 1889. In October his mother-in-law fell ill and he had to go again to Ludhiana, where he stayed till November 11th. He paid another visit to Ludhiana in the beginning of February 1890, and stayed there for about a month. Towards the end of March 1890, he became ill and went to Lahore for medical consultation and treatment in the first week of May 1890, and stayed there with his son Mirza Sultan Ahmad who was an assistant Tahsildar there at that time. His illness continued till the middle or end of June, and it was so serious that once a rumour went round that he had died. Early in July, he again went to Ludhiana for a change of air and stayed there in Muhalla Iqb a l Ganj at the house of Shahz a da H aidar. M i r Nasir Nawab was also at Ludhiana. He returned to Qadian on Wednesday, October 15th, 1890. It should not be supposed that Ahmad’s as work consisted only in writing books, issuing leaflets and making speeches. This alone was enough to keep him busy; but side by side with this he had to attend to give Rs. 10,000 out of which Sir Sayyid would have two-thirds and one- third would be Ahmad’s as. It is curious indeed to note here that Sir Sayyid was later on stricken with sorrow and grief when he and his college suffered a loss of Rs. 1,05,490/- through Sh a m Bih a r i L a l. The shock nearly killed him. When Ahmad as knew from God that Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan was approaching death he inivted him to accept the truth by means of an Ishtih a r dated March 12th, 1897, but the world was too much with him. He had even discontinued offering the S al a t and observing the fasts.