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Fazle Umar 76 dream to him. The Promised Messiah [as] became ecstatic upon hearing it and said you had such a blessed dream and kept it hidden from me all this time! You shall have a boy from this very pregnancy; concentrate upon the name Nizam Din. Its meaning is not this Mirza Nizam Din, you have suffered for so many days and you did not relate this good news to me. “Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib loved and cared a great deal for his brothers and sisters. He particularly loved me a great deal. He bore my whims and caprices. I never remember him being displeased and angry. “From the very beginning he was always very informal with me. He could always tell me everything and I was the same with him. I was very open with the Promised Messiah [as] and with my older brother, Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra]. The Promised Messiah [as] also knew that there was greater love and informality between us so on three or four occasions he said Mahmud is very reserved in speech, he never declares his requirements nor does he ask for any- thing. Ask him what he wants. I asked him and he told me. Once he requested the complete set of Bukhari. On another occasion he wanted to subscribe to a newspaper. Once his sister-in-law had gone to Lahore. He said ‘I do not like her being gone for long to Lahore, call her back. ’” F I R ST M A R R IAG E TO H A d H R AT R ASH I d A b E G UM The Promised Messiah [as] preferred to get his sons married as soon as they came of age. Hence, Hadhrat Sahibzada Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad sahib was thirteen years of age in 1902 when he requested one of his disciples, Dr Khalifa Rashid Uddin [ra] to ponder over the idea of the engagement of his oldest daughter Rashida Begum (who Hadhrat Amma Jan named Mahmuda Begum and who later became popularly known as Hadhrat Umme Nasir) to Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib. The