Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 174
174 AHMADIYY AT righteousness, should be admitted to it. These conditions are: (I) Everyone of such persons should contribute, according to his capacity, towards the preliminary expenses involved in prepar- ing this graveyard, which are estimated at three thousand rupees. (2) Everyone of such persons should make a testamentary provision that on his death a minimum of ten per cent of his property shall be handed over to the Council that will be set up for the administration of the affairs of the graveyard, for the purpose of the propagation of Islam and other objects incidental thereto. Think not that these are merely speculative expectations; this is the design of the Mighty One Who is the Ruler of heaven and earth. I have no anxiety how these means will become available and how will those people come forward who will carry out these designs out of the eagerness and zeal of their faith. My only concern is lest after our time those who are responsible for administering these affairs should fail to observe complete integrity and should be led away by the love of the world. I, therefore, supplicate that the Movement should never lack people of integrity who should administer these affairs purely for the sake of God. It would, however, be permissible that those of them who have no means of their own to fall back upon might be helped out of these funds with moderate stipends. (3) Everyone of such persons should be pious and should be one who abstains from all that is prohibited and should indulge in no innovation or anything that savours of associating anything with God. He should be a true and pure Muslim. (4) Any person who has no property and can offer no financial assistance, can be buried in this graveyard if it is established that he had dedicated his life to the service of the faith and was righteous. Let no one think foolishly that this project is an innovation contrary to the teachings of Islam. It has been undertaken under divine direction and has not originated in a human mind. Nor should anyone speculate how anyone can find admission to heaven merely by being buried in this graveyard. It is not at all meant that the soil of this graveyard would make anyone a denizen of heaven. The meaning of the divine word is that only a person who is to find admission to heaven will be buried in this graveyard [AI-Wasiyyat, pp. 16-18].