Hazrat Choudhry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (ra)

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In the context of punctuality, an interesting incident comes to my mind. A friend narrated to me that once students or Khuddam in Karachi requested Chaudhry Sahib to speak on the topic of ‘Qualities of a Good Speaker’. He mentioned many qualities in detail. The last thing he mentioned was that a good speaker must be well-aware of the end of the time allocated for his speech. Having said that, he sat down on the chair. The audience noticed the allocated time for his speech had just ended. During his stay in London, it was his routine to offer his prayers in the Mosque. We had arranged between the two of us that I would press the doorbell of his flat when going to the mosque for Prayers just to remind him during his engagements. After performing his wudhu and offering the sunnah or nawafil, he would make it to the Fazl Mosque usually on time; or in fact a few minutes earlier. He used to sit on a chair at the right end of the first row and occupied himself with remembrance of Allah till the start of the congregational prayer. If the number of worshippers was small, he would