In Punjab, he had a good-sized estate. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had mentioned in detail the "aristocratic pomp and splendour of this ancestor of his, his habit to feed a large number of people at his table, and his religious influence. ... Then, after the death of my grandfather, my elder brother Mirza Ghulam Qadir continually occupied himself with service to the Government and when the evil-doers encountered the forces of the British Government on the highway of Tammun, ...