Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 260
C ONDITIONS OF B AI ‘ AT AND R ESPONSIBILITIES OF AN A H MAD I 260 Ahmad i s. ’ ( A sha b-e-Ahmad , vol. 11, pp. 175–176, published in 1962) Caring for the widows and the orphans was her favourite pastime. People who wrote about it say that when she was engaged in preparing dowry for the girls, she used to prepare the dresses with her own hands with great joy and enthusiasm. (From A sha b-e-Ahmad , vol. 11, p. 186, published in 1962) Hadrat M i r Muhammad Is ha q ra used to take pains for the welfare of the orphans. There were orphans residing in the Orphan House which used to be called D a r-ush-Shuy u kh. One incident narrated about him is that once he was resting due to high fever and was very weak. A worker came and informed him that there was no provision for feeding the orphans and no arrangements had been made for it. No breakfast had been served that morning. He called for a horse drawn buggy and rode on it to the houses of some affluent persons and collected provisions, thus managing to feed those children. This is an example of the sentiments of our elders; even during illness he sacrificed his comfort and set out of his house for the sake of orphans. Why would he not act this way? He had the good example of his master, the Holy Prophet sa , before him where he had said: ‘I and the person who took care of the orphans will be together in the Paradise, like these two fingers’, and he pointed to his ring finger and middle finger. These were the examples of our elders and saints. Then there is an incident narrated about Hadrat Ha fi z Mu‘ i n-ud-D i n ra who was blind. Someone narrates that on one cold night there was lot of mud on the dirt roads of