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41 injured part, immediately expressed his regrets that the decree in question had been obtained without his approval, and that its execution had been stopped. Now any one can see that in reacting thus the Promised Messiah was only walking in the steps of his master, the Holy Prophet Muhammad, who after the conquest of Mecca said to his defeated enemies: “Go your way: you are free, have no desire to call you to account for your misdeeds, or to place any imposition on you. ” ( Bukharee, and Zurqanee, and Tareekhul Khamees ) 9 And for his friends, devotees, and servants, the Promised Messiah was kindness and compassion, and forgiveness personified. In his Seerat Masih-i- Mauood, Maulvi Abdul Karim relates an incident which throws light on the kindness and consideration with which the Promised Messiah treated Hazrat Maulvi Noor- ud-Din who later became the first Khalifa. Maulvi Abdul Karim Sahib writes: “The Promised Messiah was wri ting the Arabic portion of his book the Aeenaz Kamalat-I-Islam. Two sheets of a large size from this manuscript the Promised Messiah handed over to Hazrat Maulvi Noor-ud Din, to be returned to him (Hazrat Maulvi Abdul Karim) for translation into Persian. It was a piece of writing composed under divine inspiration, so that the Promised Messiah took great pride in its clear, vigorous and masterly style of expression. But by some mischance Hazrat Maulvi Noor-ud-Din happened to drop it somewhere and it was lost. Since the Promised Messiah in those days used to send the fresh portion of the manuscript to be translated into Persian every day, the unusual delay in the day’s portion reaching me made me uneasy, and I mentioned the matter to Maulvi Noor-ud- Din. The words were hardly out of my mouth when all the color ebbed away from his face, for he immediately recollected that the material had been lost somewhere. A very diligent search was then made in every possible place, but the missing two sheets were nowhere to be found. When finally, news of the loss reached the