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CONDITIONS OF BAI‘AT AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN AHMADI
Promised Messiahas. For example, there is an incident in the life of Hadrat Chaudhry Zafrullah Khan’s mother that shows how much she detested shirk. It is said that many of her children died in their infancy. Once, a child fell ill and was being treated for his illness. Someone came to visit her and left an amulet as a curative charm for him. A woman attempted to put that charm around the child’s neck. The mother snatched it and threw it into fire, saying: ‘My full trust is in my Creator and the Master; these amulets hold no significance for me.’ Later, when the child was of two months, she took him to her in-laws in Daska and stayed there for six months. Now the child was eight months old. She brought him to her parents home. After six days, the same woman—Jay Devi—visited her once again. She kissed the boy and asked the mother for some garments and grains suggesting that they would ward off some evil from the child. In response, the mother said: ‘You are a poor widow; if you want something as charity, I will be happy to give it to you as much as I can afford, but I am not among those who believe in evil spirits. To me Allah the Almighty alone is the Master of life and death. I do not accept anything else as having any hand in these matters. For me, such thoughts are equal to faithlessness in to God. I hate them very much. For this very reason I am not willing to give you anything at all.’ Jay Devi responded: ‘Think it over; if you wish to save the life of your child, you must give me what I have asked for.’ After a few days, as the mother was giving a bath to [the same baby boy], Jay Devi visited once again and pointing to the child, making a gesture, said: ‘So is he the same prince?’ The mother replied in the affirmative saying: ‘Yes, this is the 208
