Hazrat Amman Jan - An Inspiration for Us All — Page 174
174 considerate nature was so great that once there was a young girl attendant who would wake at the time of “ Tahajjud ” prayers and would then begin quizzing Hadrat Amman Jan ra with various questions of the meaning of words, without any consideration of the early time. Yet , Hadr at Amman Jan ra would answer all her questions graciously and with a pleasant countenance, never displaying any irritation. Similarly, Hadrat Amman Jan ra was also very considerate of her daughter , Hadrat Nawwab Mubaraka Begum's , needs and desires. One such o ccasion is fondly recollected by her. One day , Hadrat Nawwab Mubaraka Begum ra returned from a shopping trip in Lahore. She happened to mention to her mother that she had spotted some lovely material for a " kameez" (long tunic) in her favourite colour. Because she could not afford to buy it , she had left it , exercising self - control. Hadrat Amman Jan ra asked her daughter to describe the material and tell her the shop where she had seen it. Hadrat Amman Jan ra was then quiet, but later ordered a car and s oon returned from the shops with the very same material that her daughter had been so enamoured by. She told her beloved Mubaraka , "I felt restless all afternoon, uncomfortable as if someone was pinching me, because of the thought that my daughter had had to disappoint her heart because of a lack of rupees. " Hadrat Nawwab Mubaraka Begum ra also narrated that when her finances were stretched and her younger daughter , Asifah Mas‘udah Begum (nicknamed “ Bab y”) , would ask her for something, Hadrat Amman Jan ra would discreetly divert her granddaughter from her mother. She would tell her granddaughter: