Hazrat Choudhry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (ra)

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move his chair to the end of the row and joined the Prayer. Sometimes, Chaudhry Sahib was slightly late, and we used to wait for him before starting the Prayer. One day, a close friend of Chaudhry Sahib asked him: “Chaudhry Sahib! You are very punctual and are referred to as a model of punctuality. How come, you are late for Prayer sometimes?’’ Chaudhry Sahib was not offended, rather with his typical smile, he replied: “Allah does forgive but men do not. ” A hallmark of his character was that he never wore a wrist watch. When asked, his response was, “One has to perform ablution before each of the daily prayers. The inconvenience of taking taking off and putting it back again five times a day is too much and wastes a lot of time. ” Instead, he had a chained pocket watch that he carried in his waist coat and pulled the chain to remind him of the time in his meticulous time-keeping habit.