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ble occasion; and he went in person to his cousin's house, to inquire after his health. . Mirza Nizam-ud-Din was so ill at the time that his mind also appeared to have been affected to a certain extent. The Promised Messiah suggested some treatment, and through the grace of God the patient recovered. Hazrat. Ammajan told me that on this occasion the. Promised Messiah went to inquire after his health, the moment he learnt of the illness of this cousin, who was bitterly hostile, and remained such all his life. (Seeratul Mehdi,. Part III, Riwayat 511). It is well to remember here that this Mirza Nizam-ud-Din is the same gentleman who instituted a number of court cases against the Promised Messiah, without any basis, simply to cause him annoyance. He even went to the length of building up a wall, which blocked the way to the mosque, for the Promised Messiah and his followers; and on a number of poor Ahmadis he inflicted humiliating tortures, of which even the mere mention is unpleasant for a decent minded person (Seeratul Mehdi, Vol. I,. Rawayet 140). . This incident affords confirmation, in action, of the words of the Promised Messiah, to which I referred in my Paper on Zikr-i-Habib read last year, that even among his enemies there was none for whose welfare he had 52