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C ONDITIONS OF B AI ‘ AT AND R ESPONSIBILITIES OF AN A H MAD I 268 asked the Promised Messiah as who I was. H u du r as replied giving my name and address and then said this person loves me! Q adi Sahib used to mention this incident with great joy and used to wonder how H u du r as got to know the condition of his heart. Such was the force of his love that at the time of his death, he advised his children in the following words: ‘With great difficulty I have brought you to the door of the Promised Messiah as , now after I am gone, never leave this door. ’ His children fully acted upon his wish. ( A sha b-e-Ahmad , vol. 6, pp. 8–9, published in 1959) Hadrat Maulav i Ni‘matull a h ra was martyred in Kabul in 1924. Before his martyrdom, he wrote a letter from his prison to an Ahmad i friend, stating: I always pray to God in the prison asking Him to make this unworthy person successful in the service of the faith. I do not wish to be released from the prison or to be spared from being killed. I supplicate that may Allah let each particle of this unworthy person be sacrificed for the sake of Islam. ( T a r i kh-e- Ahmadiyyat , vol. 5, p. 450, published in 1964) Devotion to the Promised Messiah as There is an incident about Sayyed ‘Abdus Satt a r Sh a h ra exem- plifying the tenth condition of bai‘at that the bond of love with the Promised Messiah as shall be unprecedented. In 1907, the youngest son of the Promised Messiah as , Sahibz a dah Mirz a Mub a rak Ahmad fell ill with severe typhoid fever.