Perseverance — Page 116
116 – the story of al-haj Rashid ahmad american Huzur, I am leaving Rabwah on or about the 12 th of December for America. I humbly request you Huzur to give me your old kulla fixed with one of your old shirts by your wife. Yours obediently, Rashid Ahmad This letter was written on the night of the 28 th of November and placed in Huzoor’s mailbox about 10 o’clock before noon. Huzoor ra came to the mosque to say the Zuhr prayer about 1 o’clock in the afternoon. As he entered the mosque, after saying As-Sal a mu ‘Alaykum , “Rashid, here is that kulah and here is where it has been sewn with Hazrat S a hib’s [i. e. , the Promised Messiah’s] shirt piece. ” DECEMBER 1, 1954 - AT THE TIME OF ‘ASR PRAYER AT THE MASJID MUBARAK RABWAH Hazrat S a hib came to say the prayer and in the first rak‘ah in sajdah his turban came off from his head. Hazrat S a hib said the remainder of the ‘ Asr prayer with a bare head 37. When he finished the prayer he placed the turban on his head and went to his home. 37 On August 11, 2013, I asked Brother Rashid if the Second Khalīfah was bald, because I had never seen a picture of him without his turban. Brother Rashid responded that he had seen the Second Khalīfah many times without his turban on and there were never any bald spots on his head. [Writer]