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Fazle Umar 220 the deceased is an edifying grief, a delightful sadness and a gratifying hardship. This grief is better than a thousand joys and this sadness better than a thousand delights. The pain of love is not a pain but an elixir. The pain of faithfulness does not burn rather it is like a kiln which cleanses the heart and leaves it shining and polished. And the soul of man becomes free of all impurities as it breathes at a superior blissful station where the air is remarkably pure and gentle. If I was not burdened with the leadership of a Community. If through foolishness or cleverness, I was not mindful of the progress of a small Community, far from marriage, the very idea and its thought would have been a blow for my wounded heart. But I am hopeful of the favours of Allah Almighty. “…I believe this (marriage) is also not a source of happiness for the other party. One cannot have high hopes from a man who is not very healthy, who is finan- cially impoverished, who has no love for the world and whose first two wives are alive…Therefore, I believe they are also making a sacrifice. ” He hoped God would bless this union because it was to be consummated to promote some of the work of the Organization and prayed that it would also help the weak and helpless female class whose rights had been quashed for centuries. H A d H R AT A Z I Z A b E G UM S A H I b A On 1 February 1926, Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] married Hadhrat Aziza Begum sahiba, the daughter of Seth Abu Bakr of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In the Nikah ceremony, Huzur again explained the background to the marriage. He stated: “In 1914 when I got married to the late Amtul Hai, Abu Bakr, a businessman from Jeddah wrote to me that ever since his daughter was born, it was his wish to give her hand in marriage to me. However, he remained silent with the apprehension that I may not prefer to take a second wife. However, now that I