Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 227
The Spiritual Revolution 227 manner! ( Monthly An sa rull a h, Rabwah, September 1977, pp. 14–15) Hadrat Maulav i ‘Abdul Mughn i writes further about his father Hadrat Maulav i Burh a n-ud-D i n ra : After accepting Ahmadiyyat the financial situation was such that for months during this lean period the family did not even set eyes on ghee [clarified butter]. Instead of buying fuel, dry tree leaves were used to lit a fire. However, dry leaves do not cook a meal, so the d a l [pulses] was first dry roasted in the house and then ground. Water was put in a pot with salt and chilies and the leaves burnt underneath. When the water boiled the dry-roasted and ground d a l was added. This would be our meal eaten with bread. Usually it would be millet or corn bread and occasionally wheat bread. Instead of ghee , sesame oil was used. In place of spinach, young shoots of tree were cooked. His clothes would be of the old time farmers, and not of the maulav i s. He adds: On meeting with the Promised Messiah ra he developed a passionate love, affection, enthusiasm and fervour for him and it was due to this passionate love and obsession that he absolutely did not care for his own food and comfort. He was obsessed to pass on the spark of the passionate love that he felt in his heart for God, the Holy Prophet sa and the Promised Messiah as , to others. At all times he would be thinking with enthusiasm, passion, concern and anxiety on how to spread the message of Ahmadiyyat. He did not care for food, water or clothes! Allah the Almighty alone knows