AN APPEAL TO THE HEART

~ 37 ~ wonders. There are innumerable examples of this kind. We mention here one of them, showing how he once won the heart of an unruly and stubborn student, who was notorious for his wrongdoing and refusal to submit to school discipline. This student had once been appointed to collect funds for the school, and thanks to his ingenuity, had managed to collect a donation of Rs. 20,000. But he never handed it over. To the horror of the school authorities, they received instead bundles of works of fiction to the value of the whole amount. Without even opening the bundles, the school sold the books by the kilo. Another misdemeanour occurred when a group of students from an Arabic school in which this boy was also studying, was coming to see the Maulana. His classmates insisted on his accompanying them, and finally, he was persuaded to come to Basti Nizamuddin. But, at night, when everyone had gone to bed, he quietly slipped out, along with some other students, to go to a cinema show in the city. (As Nizamuddin was situated on the outskirts, there were no cinemas there.) When the show was over, they failed to find a conveyance, and had to pass the night in the city.