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170 FIRST GRAIN OF SAND 1917 Photo of the S. S. Vasna ship that Maulawi Zahoor Hussain took for his journey from Basra to Karachi in 1926 Credit: The Royal Navy Research Archive, UK In Karachi, I wrote my first letter to Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II in which I very briefly recounted my circumstances in Artyk, Ashgabat, Tashkent, and Moscow. When Huzoor received this letter, he sent it for publication to the al-Fazl newspaper [which was later published on November 16, 1926]. ¹ Two or three days later, the local Community set me off from Karachi to Qadian, and many members came to the station and bade me farewell. There were announcements in Qadian that I would be arriv- ing at Asr [late afternoon] time, but I reached the Qadian bus stop 1. The original letter and its translation is included in the Appendix Section. [Publisher]