The Promised Son — Page 18
18 paid for in full. Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad rta explained to his father that he had bought the bike in instalments from the shop and the shopkeeper had advertised in the newspa- per highlighting these instalment packages. Despite his extraordinarily busy life, Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra would find time to spend with his own children and the children of his close family. He would collect children in a room and narrate stories. The stories were not from any book. He used to make them up as he spoke. These stories had some lessons which were woven in. He understood that every second of his time with the children was very precious and so always tried to impart some knowledge to these children whilst entertaining them. He believed that lecturing a child continuously was not the correct way to bring up a child. It was far better to get the child’s attention through other means and then slowly teach the child the difference between good and bad. The session ended with mothers or servants carrying some children who had dozed off and were fast asleep. Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra always had a special place in his heart for the youth of the Movement. It was this concern for the youth that led him, as early as