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3	Death of Maulana Muhammad Ali These unpleasant events had adversely affected the health of Maulana Muhammad Ali. His health had previously improved so much that his doctors and medical attendants were satisfied with his condition. He used to walk around the house as usual and was busy in his work. On the occasion of Eid he had even addressed the Karachi Jama�at briefly. However, after these events he began to be very tired and exhausted. His heart was already weak and now he developed breathing problems. It was always his habit to sleep very little, but now that vanished entirely. Even in this condition he wrote detailed replies to two letters that had been circulated. But as his detractors had announced that they would publish ten circulars, and six or seven numbered circulars had already been issued by them, he wrote at the end of his reply that he would answer everything before the General Council of the Anjuman. Those who were issuing these circulars demanded that the General Council should be called in the middle of August. But due to the state of his health and the intense heat, it was impossible for him to travel from Karachi to Lahore for this purpose. So he intended to call the General Council in October as usual, and had written a statement in this connection which was finished on 8 October 1951. While in the same condition he had also finally completed the checking of the proofs of the fourth edition of the English translation of the Quran. Mr. Naseer Ahmad Faruqui was having him treated by specialists in Karachi for his rapid breathing and other problems that had started but there was no treatment for the sorrow he had suffered. During the last four or five days of his life he also developed stomach pains which increased his weakness. Due to the deterioration in his health and from some Divine indications, he had come to know that his end was near, but no one ever saw the least sign of despair, sorrow or despondency on his face. If he ever expressed any anxiety it was about the Jama�ah, and he expressed it to Mr. Faruqui or one or two other prominent members. During his last days when he felt greatly saddened over the state of affairs of the Jama�ah, he mentioned to Mr. Faruqui that he had received revelation from God (ilham), saying: ya �azim al-martaba (meaning, �O highly ranked one�), and upon receiving it he felt, due to his humility, that these words were referring to God. But immediately he received another revelation: wa ya da�if al-jaththa (meaning, �And O weak-bodied one�). So this second revelation explained that the first revelation was about him. His interpretation was that his body was now so weak that his soul must leave it. His first plan was to go to Lahore on 15 October. When this was mentioned, he said: �But I have seen that I am flying to the heavens in an aircraft�. On the morning of 13 October, he felt a little better. After his morning prayers he had a light breakfast. But shortly afterwards it seemed as if he had made contact with Allah. He turned his attention away from his near and dear ones who were there to look after him. At about 9 a.m. one of his doctors, Colonel Khan, came but the Maulana paid him no attention, even though he always conversed with his doctors and often engaged in some humorous talk with them. As he had been having sleeplessness during the nights, it was assumed that he wanted to sleep. So the doctor gave him a soporific injection, which made him somewhat drowsy. It was in that state that at about 11.30 a.m. on 13 October 1951, corresponding to 10 Muharram 1371, the soul of Maulana Muhammad Ali left to meet its Maker � inna li-llahi wa inna ilai-hi raji�un (�We belong to Allah, and to Him do we return�). That day was the tenth of Muharram. The events that followed in Karachi are related in detail in Mr. Faruqui�s article at the end of this book. In brief, in the evening, after the necessary funeral customs for the body of the deceased were completed, the Karachi Jama�ah said the funeral prayers at the residence of Mr. Faruqui. The coffin started its journey to Lahore by the Pakistan Mail train service at 6.30 p.m. The news of his death was broadcast in the evening and night news bulletins of Radio Pakistan and the same day from All-India Radio and the Asian programme of the Voice of America. As the Pakistan Mail travelled towards Lahore, at almost every station during the night and the next day people met the train to pay their homage, having heard the news on the radio, and many Ahmadis joined the same train along the way. On the evening of the following day the train arrived at Lahore, where a large crowd of both Ahmadis and non-Ahmadis at the station met the coffin with tearful eyes and carried it from the train. The coffin was first taken, for a short while, to his home in Muslim Town. Then it was taken to Ahmadiyya Buildings. In the mosque at Ahmadiyya Buildings, at exactly the spot from which he had delivered sermons to the Jama�at for 37 years, imbued with spiritual content and filled with zeal and passion for the propagation of the Holy Quran, his funeral prayers were led by his older brother Maulana Aziz Bakhsh. As twenty-four hours had by now passed since the news of his death was announced, it allowed a large number of people not only from Lahore but from other cities as well to attend his funeral prayers. After this, he was buried at about 9.30 p.m. in the Ahmadiyya community plot at the Miani Sahib cemetery. He had left a written will about his place of burial, saying: �I have wished for long that my grave should be at a location where I am lying at the feet of those of my companions who have passed away before me�. He was buried according to this instruction. A will for the Jama�ah When Maulana Muhammad Ali had a serious heart attack for the first time in September 1950, he gave Mr. Faruqui some instructions about his funeral. When, on 29 September, his condition worsened greatly and he became certain that he was about to meet his Creator, he called Mr. Faruqui towards him and said something to him in a weak voice, which the latter did not hear the first time. Mr. Faruqui asked him to repeat it, and bringing his ear close to the Maulana�s lips he heard him say: �Our duty is to spread the Quran in the world, then it will do its own good work.� Later on his health improved and he went to Lahore. The khutbas he delivered there have been mentioned before. These words are as his last will and therein lies the secret of the success of the Jama�ah. Newspaper reviews and messages at his death Those who mourned the death of Maulana Muhammad Ali were not only his own family and members of the Jama�ah but people in many countries throughout the world, even in the farthest corners of the earth which could not be imagined, were also shedding tears for him. The wide scale of the sorrow felt at his death can be judged from the numerous letters of condolence received by his relatives as well as by prominent members of the Jama�ah from all over the world. Many of these letters were published in the issues of Paigham Sulh from October 1951 to January 1952. All those letters would make up a book by themselves. By way of example, some newspaper reviews and letters from Muslims who were not Ahmadis are given below. Wassalam,