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44 made in the case of Maulaw i Z uh u r H ussain who was arrested. Soon after his arrival, he was put through severe interro- gation and mental and physical torture. Although, later on, this Ahmad i Missionary lost his mind through unrelenting torture and extremely hard and trying conditions in Russian prisons in those days, but before that he continued delivering the message of Ahmadiyyat to the inmates of the prisons. There were also many other converts through the efforts of ‘Abdul Q a dir, one of the later converts. At last this pioneer missionary, in that precarious state of mind and body was thrown out somewhere across the Turkish border with Russia. Properly taken care of by the Turkish authorities, he slowly recovered and returned to Qadian. His book is a very interesting record of extreme hardship and hazards which religious movements face during their nascent periods. Another Ahmad i , who undertook a journey to Russia on his own and voluntarily for the purpose of delivering the message of Ahmadiyyat was Muhammad Am i n Kh a n. He too visited Russia in 1922 en route from Baluchist a n and Iran. He was repeatedly imprisoned by the Russian police and escaped time and again with the help of Russian Muslims and thus delivered the message for about a year before he was ultimately thrown out of Russia. He was more fortunate than Maulaw i Z uh u r H ussain in having a smaller share of punishment and torture and having