Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Muslims of India — Page 24
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama'at and the Muslims of India [ 24 ] all. In no time, those clothes were distributed among the poor who would have never even dreamed of having such expensive clothes. Those who received them were almost all non-Ahmad i Muslims. After that, others followed and every box in each room of all the houses was opened. Whatever was there, it was distributed among the needy and destitute Muslim brothers. Towards the end, when I left Qadian, I had a brown sack and had only one pair of clothes in it. It was not because we could not carry more with us, it was because there was nothing left in our houses. All our possessions had been distributed. The book [ K a rv a n-e-Sakht J an ] goes on: …as the barbaric and hard-hearted Sikhs had made these refugees destitute by plundering all their pos- sessions, it was the residents of Qadian who firmly resolved to help those poor people. Obviously, it is not an ordinary task to arrange food and lodging for such a great number, particularly in these days when the prices of necessities had soared. Thus, these illit- erate guests depended upon the help from Qadian, which was provided to them till the time the Govern- ment stopped them from doing so. ( K a rv a n-e-Sakht J a n , p. 142, published by Department R a bi t a Qur’ a n i , Office Mo ha sib a t, Pakistan Defence, March 1951) In its October 3, 1947 issue, the Newspaper Zam in d a r reported: