My Mother — Page 17
chapter three Moral Training M y grandfather, Chaudhri Sikandar Khan, was a man of a religious turn of mind and led a pious life. In 1897 he performed the pilgrimage to Mecca, and also visited Medinah. He wrote a full account of the journey as it proceeded. In those days it was a very arduous undertaking. My grandfather and his party performed the journey from Jeddah to Medinah by sea to Yenbo and thence overland to Medinah. The return journey was performed in the same manner. On his return home he told that he had prayed for little me on every occasion that offered itself. At that time the pilgrimage was not only an arduous under- taking physically, it involved a serious hazard for health and life. Dysentery claimed many victims. Of my grandfather’s two com- panions, one began to suffer from it before arrival back in Bombay, and died soon after his arrival home. The other developed symp- tons of it a short while after his return home and succumbed after