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341 conversing for nearly two hours about this very subject, and at last I succeeded in convincing him that we should be prepared—in case the issue should turn out to be which party the Khalifa should be elected from—to pledge our Bai‘at to one member or another of the party of Maulawi Muhammad Ali. Death of Hadrat Khalifatul Masi h I ra At last came the day of which we had been afraid for so long. On Friday, the 13th March, in the morning, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra felt his strength ebbing away and the doctors forbade everyone to enter his room. Still nobody thought that the end was so near. During his illness, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra had charged me with leading both the five daily prayers and the special Friday prayers. Accordingly, this Friday I went to the big Qadian Mosque to lead the Friday prayers. The prayers over, I went to my house for a brief visit. But immediately there came to me a servant of Khan Muhammad Ali Khan Sahib with the message that the Khan Sahib was outside waiting for me in his coach. Forthwith I got into the coach and together we set out for the house of Khan Sahib. But we were yet on our way when a man came to us running with the news that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra had expired, and so was fulfilled a dream of