Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 352
352 quantity of water gathers in rainy season and renders passage difficult during the greater part of the year, and a bride shall have to be constructed there. These expenses are estimated at Bs. 2,000. Thus a sum of E,s. 3,000 in all will be required for the defrayal of expenses in connection with the completion of the grave-yard. The first condition is, therefore, that every person who desires to be hurried in this grave-yard, should subscribe towards this fund so far as his means allow. This subscription shall be accepted from such persons only and from none others. At present] this subscription should be remitted to Maulvi Noor- ud-Din, but if Almighty God will it, this system shall have to be continued after the death of us all. In this case, there should be an Anjuman which should be entrusted with the expenditure of the money, thus collected from time to time, in the spread of unity and in making the religion of Islam prevail in the world. (2 ) The second condition is that only those of my follow- ers shall be buried in this graveyard who leave by their will a tenth of their property to be spent in the spread of Islam and carrying the commandments of the Holy Quran to other people in accordance with the directions of this propaganda. Every righteous man may, if he likes, leave more than a tenth part of his property by his will for this purpose, but not less than this< All income from this source shall be in the charge of an Anjuman composed of honest and learned members which will spend it in the advancement of Islam, the publication of the Quranic lore and theological books and the appointment of preachers for this propaganda. It is the promise of God that He shall make this dispensation prosper, therefore it is hoped that much wealth would be gathered for the propagation of Islam. Every expenditure that is included in the propagation of Islam, any details of which are at present before the time, shall be