Hazrat Choudhry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (ra)

Hazrat Choudhry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (ra) — Page 45

Frugality and Economising I am now going to mention another unique feature of his life that I have observed myself very often and most of his friends would have witnessed. It is to do with his quality of frugality and economising. It is common observation that when the bar of soap used for washing is reduced to a very small size – known as ‘chipper’ in Punjabi, it gets discarded as of no further use. However, Chaudhry Sahib used to press this ‘chipper’ or sliver of soap on to the new soap bar between his two hands to fuse them together and get more use out of the remaining sliver of soap. If anybody expressed surprise about it, he would respond with a simple argument: if this soap sliver was good enough to be used yesterday, then there is no reason, why it can’t be used today! I observed him, on some occasions, fusing together two different coloured bars of soaps. There is an interesting incident in that context. One day Chaudhry Sahib came to Fazl Mosque