The Promised Son — Page 24
24 more and more people have settled in the town. The town now stretches over 8 square miles. The foundation of Rabwah was laid by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra on 20 September 1948. In 1941, whilst in Qadian, Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra saw a dream in which the town of Qadian was under attack. The enemy occupied the town, forcing the local inhabitants to flee and take refuge on an elevated ground somewhere under the sun. The dream was published in December 1941 in the Jama’at’s daily newspaper the Al-Fazl. After the migration to Pakistan Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud- Din Mahmud Ahmad ra started to look for a suitable place for the community to settle down. He consulted Chaudhry Aziz Ahmad, an Ahmadi who was a judge in the town of Sargodha and was familiar with the surrounding areas. He recommended to Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra that the Jama’at should purchase an area of land, which was the property of the government. The area of land was approximately 1,000 acres and it lay between Sargodha and Chiniot. Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra asked two people to go and visit the site and report back on its suitability and feasibility to be the next centre for the Jama’at headquarters. The two were Nawab Muhummad Din, a retired Deputy Commissioner and Chaudhry Asadullah Khan, an advocate from Lahore. Chaudhry Asadullah Khan