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Part II – My Life as a Muslim 53 Hazrat was suffering from gout and this was the reason. However, I did not know that and I had a habit of copying all of his actions. After the Zuhr prayer the Hazrat noted that I did not stand as well when I said my sunnah and nafl prayers. He informed me that it was not the practice of the Holy Prophet saw to sit while performing his sunnah and nafl. He would stand and go through all the different postures of prayer, but he was accustomed to sit and say 2 raka‘ a t [pl. of rak‘ah ] of prayer after finishing his ‘ Ish a ’ prayer. These 2 raka‘ a t of prayer after the required prayer was what the Holy Prophet saw did. The Hazrat advised that I should be mindful of copying the acts of other people without reason. He then said that was the difference between copying and reasoning. For example, the non- Ahmadi Muslims began to write in their books that Jesus as was alive and waiting in the heavens to come back in this world. This they began to copy from each other without reasoning. This became their standard belief. But through revelations, the Promised Messiah as brought forth reasons based upon the facts within the Holy Qur’ ā n that Jesus as son of Mary was dead and would not come back to this earth, because the dead do not return to this earth. JUNE 5, 1950 – LEAVING RATTAN BAGH Everyone was at the train station and assigned to their compartments. I was in the compartment with the Khal ī fah’s private doctor, Dr. Hashmatullah Khan; the Private Secretary, M i a n Muhammad Y u suf; the Assistant Secretary, Sheikh Mubarak Ahmad (not the missionary spoken of earlier); and Abdush- Shakoor Kunze (the German missionary student). Dr.