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51 great moral excellence, and the high point of absolute reliance on God where she stood; and now that this Paper on the character sketch and personality of the Promised Messiah is going into print it seems proper that a brief note on her as well should be added as supplement, so that the two remain together in this grateful remembrance just as they lived together in this life; and so that their being together in spirit in this sense in a writing of mine should be a source of mental joy and peace for me as well. Hazrat Amma Jaan passed away from this world in April, 1952. During the years which have passes since, I have felt the urge a number of times to write something on her Seerat, but every time I have had to postpone the task from a great rush of emotions. But urged again by some friends on this occasion, I have now decided to write the following lines. 1 To Hazrat Amma Jaan belongs the unique distinction and honor that her marriage with the Promised Messiah came about as a result of an idea and a suggestion put in motion under direct Divine guidance. Her second distinction is that her marriage took place in 1884, and this is the year when the Promised Messiah publicly put forth his claim that he was the Mujaddid (divinely commissioned reformer) for this age, and then forever afterwards she remained his partner in life. The Promised messiah always treated her with the greatest love and solicitude and with the greatest regard for her feelings. For he had a strong feeling himself that this marriage had taken place under a divine plan, and that there was a special connection and relationship between her and the happy and blessed period of his life; in fact, on occasions, Hazrat Amma Jaan herself used to remark with peculiar joy and pride that with her arrival in his home had started the period of blessings in his life. On such occasion the Promised Messiah would smile softly and say: “Yes, that is true. ” On the other side Hazrat Amma Jaan, too, in her place lived her life in the fullest and sweetest concord with the Promised Messiah, and always in the home of the Promised Messiah there was such tranquility, and peace, and sweetness, that it appeared as if in the two bosoms there was only one and the same heart that animated them 2