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44 someone as insignificant as me. That He, for what He is, should ask me, as I am, for my life. That He should ask me to offer Him, something dear to me" 28 After being bequeathed to the Jamā‘at , his house " Kunj - e - ‘Āfiyat " was first made the office of an important pu blication of the Jamā‘at , the Al - Fazl n ewspaper. Later, " Kunj - e - ‘Āfiyat " was turned into the Jamā‘at 's hospital. And so, its acceptance in the eyes of God became clear to him. His humble token had been accepted by his Lord. This property continue s to remai n in the service of God, till now, long after the death of Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib ra. Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib 's eldest daughter was named Maryam Siddiqa, after Ḥaḍrat Maryam (Mary), with the intention that she would serve the cause of God. With the same hope, she had also been given another name - Nazar Ilahi - which means "Dedicated to God". Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib ra remained concerned, waiting for a sign, whether this offering of his, in the form of his dear daughter, had bee n accepted by God or not. A fter waiting for fifte en long years, the sign finally came, and a glaring one indeed. His sister, Ḥaḍrat Sayyeda Nusrat Jahan Begum, asked for the hand of his daughter Maryam Siddiqa, for her son Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad ra ( Khalīfatul - Masīḥ II). His dear daughter's hand had been sought in marriage to the Khalifa of Islam who was also the promised son of the Promised Messiah as. In 1935, Ḥaḍrat Maryam Siddiqa was wedded to Ḥaḍrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad ra. As wife of the Khalifa, Ḥaḍrat Maryam Siddiqa, known popular ly among Ahmadis as " Chot ī Ā p ā ", was