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developed into virtually a message of death for him. And not only that he lived to be nearly a centinarian, and died in Qadian many years after partition of the country. To the time of his death, he remained a firm Arya. Samajist. But the impression on his mind of the righteousness of the Promised Messiah, and the Signs which he had witnessed with his own eyes, was so deep and profound, that at the time of partition, when bloody disorder broke out in Qadian and the surrounding area, and the Hindus and Sikhs subjected the Muslim population to an inhuman persecution, killing even old men, women and children, including some Ahmadis as well, and when Hazrat. Khalifatul Masih was forced to migrate to. Pakistan, with most of the Ahmadi population, leaving behind only a small body of men to look after the sacred places of the Movement at the Centre-in those critical days, this Lala. Malavamal sent for his son, Lala Dataram, and said: "Take care that you do not take part in Hindu and Sikh activities directed against the. Ahmadis, for there is a prophecy of the Founder of the Movement that his followers will, at some future date, again come back to Qadian; and I have seen myself in the course of life a number of times that whatever was foretold by Mirza Sahib, always subsequently came to pass. ". Masal, (File) Reports from Qadian 35