My Mother — Page 33
Spiritual Haven 33 the most eminent disciple of the Promised Messiah who had accompanied him to Sialkot, and who—on being approached very kindly—intimated that he would be glad to receive them every evening for an hour or so. There were four meetings, at which I had also the good for- tune to be present. This gave me the opportunity of observing Maulvi Nooruddeen at close quarters, and he may have noticed me as the son of his friend Nasrullah Khan. Coming away from the last meeting my father asked Chaudhri Muhammad Amin whether he was now able to make up his mind. He said that the points he had raised had all been resolved. ‘Then shall we make the covenant?’ ‘What do you think?’ ‘I am ready, if you are. ’ ‘Very good then. Tomorrow morning when you come up for Fajr Prayer take me along with you and we shall make the covenant. ’ Next morning I accompanied my father for the Fajr Prayer service, and on our way we called on Chaudhri Muhammad Amin to join us but he felt he was not yet ready to shoulder the respon - sibilities imposed by the covenant. So my father made the cov- enant in a private sitting with the Promised Messiah after the Fajr Prayer service. I was also present. My father’s making the covenant a few days after had made it was in accord with her dream. The seat she had guarded for him in her dream was occu- pied by him, and harmony was joyfully restord in the family. had in truth sworn allegiance in her dreams and confirmed it by making the covenant, and she fulfilled it in the letter and in the spirit throughout the rest of her life. Every day