It was with tremendous pain, suffering, and heartbreaking news that came as a bolt from the blue to know that Prof. Mohammad Firoz Khan has left for his heavenly abode on December 1, 2020, just a month before his coming birthday on January 1, 2021. One can hardly imagine that a person seen in the University a couple of days before, could succumb to a heart attack in a hospital. Immediately, Urdu poet Nida Fazli’s couplet started ringing like a bell in the ear, “The news of your death is a lie. You cannot die….We are imprisoned in your memories, you are alive in us”. However, who can deny the will of the almighty? Besides being a close friend and a wonderful colleague, he was just like my younger brother. His demise created a void. and to fill it memories of my personal contact flooded like cinema reels. We first met in 1977, when he was doing research at Aligarh Muslim University under the guidance of eminent scholar Prof. S. M. Rafiullah. I went there to attend a Summer Institute only because of the recommendation of Professor Rafiullah Sahib. When I joined J.N.U. as a Teacher Fellow in 1982, we had frequent meetings. However, our relationship blossomed when I joined Jamia Millia Islamia in 1995.