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Fazle Umar 65 he acquired an air gun he would set off to hunt with his friends in the neighbouring villages around Qadian. A H U n T I n G T R I P Let us take a closer look and assess to what degree they help illuminate his per- sonality. Since we were considering hunting, it may be appropriate to commence with an incident related by Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib that involved hunting: “I remember an incident early in my childhood. There was no limit to my astonishment, I was amazed and thought a lot about it. However, I could not understand anything. Finally, by the Grace of Allah I understood the wisdom that lay inside this incident. This incident is related to my hobby of shooting small birds with an air gun. Once I set off towards a village that may have been Nathpur. There were one or two other boys accompanying me. When I reached there, some local Sikh youths came to us and said, ‘come we will show you the prey. ’ “Hence, they took us close to the village and pointed us to the prey. They kept us company wherever we went. They were enjoying the hunt as much as we were and enjoyed finding the prey as much as we were. At one time we spot- ted a dove perched in a tree. I took aim, fired and she fell to the ground. The Sikh boys showed as much pleasure in this as we did. In the meantime an old woman passed from there. As soon as she spotted the dove tossing and rolling restlessly, she started shouting. She told the Sikh youths that they ought to be ashamed! They had become so shameless that people from neighbouring vil- lages were coming to destroy life in their village. ” [Huzur says the Sikh youths’ complexion changed from the outburst of the old lady and they told us not to hunt there anymore]. 39