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52 – the story of al-haj Rashid ahmad american JUNE 4, 1950 – TRIP TO QUETTA, PAKISTAN The Private Secretary to the Hazrat notified us that we would move out early in the morning at 2:15am, taking all bedding and belongings to the train station platform. The train arrived but did not stop long enough to place our entire luggage in the proper places. The train had four classes of travel: First Class, Second Class, Inter Class and Third Class. The Khudd a m [i. e. , males aged 15 to 39 years] boys of Rabwah were loading our luggage onto the train, but there were two Pathans already seated in the Inter Class car who were taking our luggage from one side and throwing it out the other side of the train. As the train was leaving, the Ahmadi Khudd ā m boys were all around the train and throwing our luggage back onto the train as it was moving out of the station. A group of 50 Ahmadis under the leadership of the Private Secretary, M i a n [pronounced Mee-ya ] Muhammad Y u suf, would travel by train to meet the Khal ī fah ra at Lahore. The Khal ī fah ra was traveling by car with his family to Lahore. When we arrived at Lahore, we stayed at Rattan Bagh. There the Private Secretary purchased the train tickets for traveling onward to Quetta. The reservation was made under “The Head of the Ahmadiyya Family Community. ” True Ahmadis are one big family that have pledged allegiance to the head of the organization. The Hazrat arrived at 11:40am, traveling with his mother whose age was about 85 years, four wives, one son, three daughters and a granddaughter. The Hazrat led the Zuhr [also written as Dhuhr ] prayers. However, he did not stand while offering his sunnah and nafl. The