THE SINCERE DEVOTION

~ 22 ~ devotions. It may be a stick, or anything a cubit in height and an inch in thickness. On one journey to Kandhla he bought a third class ticket but, having failed to find a seat in a third class compartment, he got into a secondclass compartment along with his colleagues. He could pay the extra amount when the ticket collector arrived, he said. But the ticket collector created difficulties when he saw the tickets. The Maulana was momentarily put out and scolded him. When the Ticket Collector left after renewing the tickets, one of his colleagues, Maulana Inamul Hasan, said to him that the man had had the right to object. The Maulana was quick to admit his mistake and as soon as the train stopped at the next station, he went up to him and apologized. His attachment to God was such that prayers were not so much a matter of obligation to him as a source of great enjoyment and solace. In the course of rough journeys where hills had to be crossed, his colleagues were usually exhausted by the time they reached the top of the hill and preferred to take rest.