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In fact, when one studies this entire controversy with a detached mind and a sense of honesty, one finds that during this entire period when Muhammedi Begum's family lived under the shadow of God Almighty's wrath, Hadhrat Ahmadas besought them repeatedly to repent and save themselves from the decree against them. He counselled them to 'seek forgiveness from God of forgivers. 132. Hadhrat Ahmadas also stated that in one of his visions, he saw a weeping woman from amongst the family of Mirza Ahmad. Beg. He counselled the maternal grandmother of Muhammedi. Begum: 'Woman! Repent and turn back for misfortune is pursuing thee. 133 However, this branch of an otherwise noble family was too arrogant to take counsel. It flirted with. Christianity for a while 34 and some of its prominent members apostatised and joined the Arya Samaj³5 - a Hindu organisation dedicated to the destruction of Islamic values in the subcontinent of India. Some years later, a considerable number of its members became atheists and openly declared: 'We have no need of Allah or His Book or His Messengersa, the Seal of Prophets. They said: We shall not accept any Sign unless we are shown a Sign in our own lives. We do not believe in the Quran and we do not know what prophethood is and what faith is and we deny that all. ". I. Nevertheless, since God Almighty had decreed that He would 'not destroy them at one stroke but gradually so that they might turn back, He began to fulfil His word and Muhammedi. Begum's family was subjected to a series of misfortunes. In the first of a series of calamities, her uncle, Mirza Nizamud Din suffered a colossal tragedy when precisely in the 31st month of the first prophecy against the family, his daughter, aged twenty five, died, leaving behind an infant child. 37 32. Ibid. , pp. 213 33. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Tabligh e Risalat, p. 162 34. Chashma e Noor. Amritsar: August, 1885 & Noor Afshan: 10th May, 1888 35. Riyaz Hind: Vol. I: No. 16. Ruhani Khazain, vol. 7 36. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Karamat us Sadiqeen 37. Tabligh e Risalat: vol 1, p. 102 285