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101 of land. By mid-day he decided to run to claim still greater area. By mid-afternoon, he estimated that running at that speed he would not make it back to the starting point, therefore, he started running faster and reached his destination in time. However, the extreme exertion left him so exhausted that he fell down and gave up the ghost. The writer comments that actually all he needed was just two meters of land (for his grave)! Financial Sacrifice of a Sincere Poor Ahmadi There is an elderly Ahmadi, Muhammad Trawally in Basse, the Gambia. He is extremely poor, financially straitened, without any source of income and has a large family. One evening I visited him. It was dinner time. He told me that they were having dinner but could not invite me to it. When I asked the reason, he told me that they only had boiled rice and were using salt and pepper dissolved in water as soup. That gives a fair indication of his financial condition. In a Friday sermon, once I proposed to the jama’at to set up an agricultural farm. Most of the members being traders, it did not have the desired effect. After the Friday prayer, Muhammad Trawally came to my room and asked me to see him the following day in his farm in a particular village. When I asked him if everything was okay, he replied that he would tell me there. Accordingly, I reached there the following day. Mr Trawally was ploughing in his farm. He took me to the middle of the field and said, ‘half of this farm is mine and the other half I give to the jama’at. I will do the farming and the income will go to the