My Mother — Page 114
114 On being apprised of it, she came and, standing at his rear, submitted, ‘Sir, I am here’; upon which he charged her, ‘Tell Mahmood to be mindful about the affairs of the mosque. ’ She directed me to relate the dream to Hazrat Khalifatul- Masih who, on hearing it, observed, ‘This has reference to the tri- als with which the Community may be confronted. ’ Some time after the death of my father she had requested Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih that if it was permissible, a site close to the grave of my father might be reserved for her grave. He said that normally such advance reservation was not approved of, but it could be done in exceptional circumstances. He directed that the site immediately to the right of my father’s grave might be reserved for. It so happened, however, that soon after, Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih’s aunt, widow of Mirza Ghulam Qadir, elder brother of the Promised Messiah, died and by an oversight was buried in the site reserved for. Some time later another revered member of the Movement, Abdus Sattar Khan Afghan, a disciple of Hazrat Sahibzadah Abdul Latif Khan, the martyr of Kabul, died and was buried immediately to the left of my father. On ’s mentioning of the situation to Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih, he told her that there had been an oversight on the part of the cemetery staff, but that he had now given strict directions that another site close to the grave of Chaudhri Sahib should be reserved for her and that the reservation should be entered in the cemetery books. He added, ‘This site is at the foot of his grave. ’ She rejoined, ‘Sir, I am fit only to lie at his feet. ’ In May 1935, we left for Simla, the summer capital of the Government of India, for me to take charge of my office of