Volume 1 Letter 87

 

From: Hazrat Sheikh-ul-Hadith Sahib (May his secret be sanctified)

To: Hazrat Moulana Yusuf Motala Sahib (May his lofty shadow be lengthened)

Date: 20^th Shabaan 1388/10^th November 1968

 

After the sunnah greeting, your preceding letters increasingly augmented my keenness for you to spend Ramadhan here. Moreover, learning of your date of departure as 13^th October heightened my fervour further still, but the letter of 1^st November changed that happiness into heartache and sorrow. Details of the telegrams and letters, the particulars of sending a man from Quetta Pakistan and the efforts made on your behalf at the Foreign office in Delhi, shall be apprised to you in full by way of dearest molvi Abdur-Raheem. It is a somewhat lengthy account. Last night at around Isha time, we were informed via telephone from Delhi that in response to the telegram sent through the foreign office here, the Iranian foreign office reports that one person had returned to London and four persons, including yourself, are arriving by ship and will arrive in Bombay and make port on 11^th November.  

Last night I wrote you two cards using the Bombay address, one posted by freight, and the other was mailed from Delhi today. Dearest Abdur-Raheem is more worried than I am, and so he should be, consequently, he has notified me of his intention to travel to Bombay personally. I thought it expedient that he go, lest in your zeal to return you come here directly. I am informed that there is a painless and straightforward treatment for it in Surat; therefore, you ought to return only after receiving the treatment, it is also the cold season here. God forbid should any lasting effects of the injury remain it may prove troublesome. Consequently, I am sending dearest Abdur-Raheem.      

That is all. Salaam

Hazrat Sheikh-ul-Hadith Sahib

Dictated to Abdur-Raheem

20^th Shabaan 1388