Model of Hadrat Maulavi Burhan-ud-Din ra

Almighty, with Hudur’s prayer that is exactly how it came to pass. This humble person continued to grow in patience and steadfastness under all circumstances. (Ashab-e-Ahmad, vol. 6, pp. 12–13)

Model of Hadrat Maulavi Burhan-ud-Dinra [as narrated by his son]

When the Promised Messiahas arrived Sialkot in the early days, he was traveling with some friends to deliver his lecture. While he was passing through a street someone threw a basketful of ashes from a roof top. With the grace of Allah the Almighty, Hudur as was saved as he had passed through. The ashes fell on the head of my father. As a consequence, the old, grey haired man became a spectacle for people. As he passionately loved Hadrat Sahib, he stood right there in ecstasy and most cheerfully started saying, ‘Come on woman, throw some more!’ He used to say that it was a favour of Allah the Almighty that because of Hadrat Sahibas he had received the blessing.

After Hadrat Sahib’sas departure from Sialkot, the khuddam were returning to their homes after seeing him off at the train station. Somehow he (Maulavi Burhan-ud-Din ra) was left behind and the opponents caught him and deeply humiliated him, so much so that they stuffed cow-dung in his mouth. However, he felt honour in this humiliation, and pleasure in this pain and would repeatedly say, ‘O Burhan, how did you deserve these blessings!’ That is to say, these blessings do not easily come by; rarely is one victimised for the sake of faith, that it is good fortune to suffer in that

manner! (Monthly Ansarullah, Rabwah, September 1977, pp. 14–15)

Hadrat Maulavi ‘Abdul Mughni writes further about his father Hadrat Maulavi Burhan-ud-Din ra :

After accepting Ahmadiyyat the financial situation was such that for months during this lean period the family did not even set eyes on ghee [clarified butter]. Instead of buying fuel, dry tree leaves were used to lit a fire. However, dry leaves do not cook a meal, so the dal [pulses] was first dry roasted in the house and then ground. Water was put in a pot with salt and chilies and the leaves burnt underneath. When the water boiled the dry-roasted and ground dal was added. This would be our meal eaten with bread. Usually it would be millet or corn bread and occasionally wheat bread. Instead of ghee, sesame oil was used. In place of spinach, young shoots of tree were cooked. His clothes would be of the old time farmers, and not of the maulavis.

He adds:

On meeting with the Promised Messiahra he developed a passionate love, affection, enthusiasm and fervour for him and it was due to this passionate love and obsession that he absolutely did not care for his own food and comfort. He was obsessed to pass on the spark of the passionate love that he felt in his heart for God, the Holy Prophetsa and the Promised Messiahas, to others. At all times he would be thinking with enthusiasm, passion, concern and anxiety on how to spread the message of Ahmadiyyat. He did not care for food, water or clothes! Allah the Almighty alone knows