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42 Promised Messiah, he at once came out, smiling and in excellent spirits. Instead of giving expression to any kind of displeasure at the carelessness which had caused the loss, he expressed genuine and deep regret at eh anxiety the incidental loss had caused to Maulvi Noor-ud-Din Sahib. And he added that it was his conviction that Allah would enable him to reproduce the same material in better words and better form than before. “( Seeratul Mahdi, Part I, pg. 278-279 ) This revealing incident throws light on two aspects of the Promised Messiah’s mind and character, his extraordinary solicitude and compassion for his friends; and his unusually firm faith in divine help and succor. Here was a case of certain amount of carelessness on the part of Hazrat Maulvi Noor-ud-Din Sahib. But in his compassion, the Promised Messiah was grieved at the anxiety the loss had caused to his devotee, Hazrat Maulvi Noor-ud-Din. And his confident reliance on divine help was so firm that even at the loss of a piece of writing of such extraordinary excellence, he remarked with sublime unconcern that this was no matter for any kind of anxiety, since he was sure Allah would enable him to recreate the material in better form and better words. This extraordinary solicitude and compassion for his friends, this depth and firmness of faith and reliance in divine help, this fortitude and forbearance is certainly not to be met with except in those two are the anointed of God. 10 A near relation of our maternal grandfather, Hazrat Meer Nasir Nawab, came to Qadian and stayed here for some time in the days of the Promised Messiah. Once during the cold months, grandfather sent him an old coat of his to serve as some protection against the weather. But seeing that the coat was an old one, the young man returned it, with an expression of displeasure and contempt saying that he would not wear the cast off clothes of other people. Now it so happened that the Promised Messiah say the maid-servant who was returning to the Meer Sahib with the coat, and asked her whose coat it was she was carrying. She replied that Meer Sahib had sent it as a gift for his relation, so and so, but the latter had returned it with contempt because it was an old garment. There at the Promised said to her: “Do not take it back to Meer Sahib, for it would hurt his feelings. Give it to me, and I shall wear it myself.