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64 College Committee, he had procured my appointment as part- time Lecturer in the University Law College. He was appointed Minister of Education in the Government of the Punjab in 1920 and held that office for five years with great distinction to the last- ing benefit of the people of the Province. He was then appointed Revenue Member. From the beginning of my membership of the Legislative Council, he gave me his confidence and treated me as his principal lieutenant. In the autumn of 1927, the Muslim Members of the Legislative Council—at the suggestion of Sir Fazal-i-Husain—asked me to proceed to Britain as their representative for the purpose of pre - senting the Muslim point of view to leading British public men, in anticipation of the appointment of the Royal Commission on Indian Constitutional Reforms, subsequently known as the Simon Com mission. In pursuance of their mandate I spent about six weeks in London and had interviews with a number of lead- ing British personalities. For me this proved valuable education in itself. Sir Fazal-i-Husain was pleased with my report. Earlier that year , my wife, and I had gone on a visit to my father-in-law, Chaudhri Shamshad Ali Khan, I. C. S. at Giridih in the Province of Bihar, where he was posted as Sub- Divisional Officer. On the very first day of our visit, Mother saw in her dream my wife seeking to pick fruit from a fruit tree stand- ing in the garden of the house. My father told her that the fruit was not yet ripe. At its due season he would himself bring her some in a plate. said to him, ‘We have had to travel 900 miles by train to get here. How is it that you have arrived here so quickly?’ He said, ‘I have accompanied you all the way. ’