Why Islam is my choice — Page 13
13 wife was very happy to see me accept Isl ā m. She, later on, became a very prominent lady in Isl ā m. After accepting A ḥ madiyyat, I also learned about some other sects of Isl ā m but the fact that Ḥ a ḍ rat Mirz ā Ghul ā m A ḥ mad, the Promised Messiah, in his writings, sounded so much like the Holy Prophet Mu ḥ ammad (Peace and Blessings of All ā h be upon him), I had no difficulty in recognizing Ahamdiyyat to be the true Isl ā m. The same year, after accepting A ḥ madiyyat, I saw Ḥ a ḍ rat Mirz ā Bash ī r-ud-D ī n Ma ḥ m ū d A ḥ mad, the Second Successor to the Promised Messiah, in a dream. I saw that I was in Pakistan and I asked some men that I wished to see the Khal ī fatul-Mas īḥ (Successor to the Promised Messiah). They said that he was upstairs in his room. When I went to see him, he appeared to be sleeping, but someone told me that he was praying. There was a back door in that room through which I saw Ṭā lib Daw ū d exiting as I entered the room through the front door. Then, in 1974, I visited Pakistan and India for the first time. That began a warm relationship with Ḥ a ḍ rat Mirz ā N āṣ ir A ḥ mad, Third Successor to the Promised Messiah. I left there with a wonderful feeling, a kind of a feeling that is hard to explain in words. In the seventies and Rabwah, I had been to Qadian and Rabwah so many times that the border guards on both sides would ask me, “How are you sir, this year?” I wish I could stay in Rabwah longer than I did, but as my mother could not travel with me, I had to return to provide care for her. When I visited Bahisht ī Maqbarah in Qadian, I was filled with tears. I felt such a strong belonging to Isl ā m that I had never felt anything like it before. In the early days of my acceptance, Brother ‘ Ā bid Ḥ aneef and I would go to New York city and pass out pamphlets as a means of propagation. By doing so we brought many people into Isl ā m, but unfortunately, most of them have not stayed