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211 Try to stop smoking gradually One MP, Hon Muhammad Mustafa, told Huzur that he smoked heavily and requested prayers to help him stop smoking. Huzur advised him to try cutting down gradually. Huzur told Choudhry Haadi Ali that a member of the Senegalese delegate was a smoker and directed him to get cigarettes for him. That he did. The people were greatly impressed by Huzur’s extraordinary kindness. Loving Kindness Unlimited It was probably in 1995 that Huzur was in Germany for participation in the Jalsa Salana. My parents requested for mulaqat with Huzur that he granted kindly. My parents entered for the mulaqat. Huzur received them with love and kindness. At the end of the mulaqat, Huzur said, ‘let us have a photograph’. My mother was quite heavy. When she tried to get up, our kind master said, ‘you keep seated on the chairs, I will come and stand behind you’. That their master should stand behind them while they remained seated on chairs was unusual and unnerving for my parents. Therefore, they tried to get up again. Huzur told them again to remain seated as he walked and stood behind them and the photograph was taken. Later Huzur told my parents, ‘send a copy of the photo to our Munawar’. Glory be to Allah! All instances of such kindness and love by our master for the disciples cannot by described; that was exclusively his magnificence.