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window in this room was open, which gave a view of a portion of the building nearby where lived a cousin of the Promised Messiah, whose name was Mirza Nizam-ud-Din. Intent on my preoccupation with the game of the moment,. I happened to remark to my playmates: "Look, that is the house of Nizam-ud-Din. ” These words, uttered by me in a kind of childish unconcern, happened to catch the ears of the. Promised Messiah. At once he turned to me and said: "Look, my boy, he is after all your uncle. You should not name him without respect, like that. " (Seeratul Mehdi,. Riwayat 37). . I have mentioned in some other connection, that even though Mirza Nizam-ud-Din was a close relation of the Promised Messiah, having been a first cousin, he was extremely hostile to Hazrat Ahmad%;B and this was the reason why the ties of relationship lay in a general abeyance, and there was a feeling of remoteness, between the two families. It was a result of this general atmosphere that I referred to my uncle in this manner, in the careless way of children which, seemingly, was one of a certain measure of disrespect. But such was the high moral state of mind of the Promised Messiah that immediately the words dropped from my lips, I was suitably reprimanded and corrected. The effect 50