Hazrat Choudhry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (ra)

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The Final Journey To conclude, I would like to mention about two of my last meetings with Chaudhry Sahib, one during his lifetime and the other after his demise. When I came to London for the second time in 1983 as the National Amir and Imam of the London Mosque, he was staying in London but had decided to spend the last days of his life in Pakistan. He used to say that he wanted to go to Pakistan while fully mobile on his feet, not enclosed in a coffin. A few days after my arrival in London, he was scheduled to leave for Pakistan on 19th November 1983 and farewell meetings were going on. Chaudhry Sahib generally treated everyone with love and affection that was more conspicuous during the farewell meetings. Besides the elderly and young members of the Jama’at, he also treated the children with affection. However, I never saw him holding any child in his lap. Our son, Ataul Munem Rashed, was 11