The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 341
340 Α'ΙΝΑ-Ε-ΚΑMĀLĀT-E-ISLAM-DAFI UL-WASĀWIS My humble self has had to face many such experiences, the details of which will only lengthen this account. However, I proceed to relate three such examples, and I do so with this objective: If you have ever had similar occasions to test your love of truth, I hereby adjure you in the name of Allah, His eminence be glorified, to publish them along with their proof, so that it might be known that you are not making an empty claim, and that even in the grip of trials and tribulations you have not violated the truth. One of these is that after the death of my father my brother the late Mirza Ghulam Qādir and I were sued in the District Court by the joint proprietors of the Qadian estate at the instance of Mirza 'Azam Baig of Lahore, for proprietary possession of the estate. I knew that these co-proprietors had apparently nothing to do with the ownership of the estate, for it had been lost to the family and had ceased to exist in the time of the Sikhs. In an effort to retrieve it along with other estates, my father had alone borne an expense and loss of approximately 8,000 rupees in which these people had not shared so much as a single penny. In the course of this litigation, on praying for the success of the suit, I had the revelation: أُجِيبُ كُلَّ دُعَائِكَ إِلَّا فِي شُرَكَائِكَ . Meaning that: I shall accept all your prayers but not in the matter of your collaterals. After this revelation I invited my brother along with all the men and women of the family, some of whom are still alive, to gather at a place, and I clearly explained to them not to defend the joint proprie- tors' suit as it was against God's will to do so, but they did not accept my suggestion and were ultimately unsuccessful. As for myself, I bore the loss of thousands of rupees with courage. All those who are now my enemies are witnesses to this. As all affairs of the estate were in the hands of my brother, I counselled him again and again, but he refused and ultimately bore the loss.