Tadhkirah — Page 201
1888 201 Thus did Allah the Almighty deal with them, breaking their backs with the weight of sorrows and debts and privations and sent down upon them all kinds of trials and tribulations and opened for them the doors of death and destruction so that they might turn back and should give up their indifference, but their hearts were hardened and they did not understand nor did they wake up nor did they fear. When the time of the display of the Sign drew near, it so happened in those days that one of their near relations of the name of Ahmad Baig desired to take possession of the land of his sister whose husband had disappeared many years before. [ A’i na-e-Kam ala t-e-Isl a m , pp. 566–570, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 5, pp. 566–570] (B) This man’s [Mirz a Ahmad Baig Hoshiarpuri’s] sister had been married to a cousin of mine whose name was Ghul a m H usain. He disappeared twenty-five years ago and has not been heard of since. His land was recorded in the government records in the name of this man’s sister, the reversion of which belongs to us. In the recent settlement of land, which is in District Gurdaspur, the said Mirz a Ahmad Baig desired—with the consent of his sister—to have the land, which was valued at four or five thousand rupees, recorded in the name of his son Muhammad Baig as a gift from Ahmad Baig’s sister and a deed of gift was executed by the sister. As this deed could not be effective without our consent, the said Ahmad Baig turned to us with great humility and meekness and begged us to attest the deed of gift. I was inclined to make this attestation and then the thought passed through my mind that, as it had been my extraordinary diseases and shall make their lives a misery and shall pile up afflictions upon them and no one will be able to help them. [Publishers]