The Devotion of Life — Page 190
190 These classes were held twice a day at Masjid Mubarak and Masjid Aqsa with Hadrat Qazi Ameer Hussein Sahib ra , Hadrat Maulana Syed Muhammad Sarwar Shah Sahib ra , Hadrat Hafiz Roshan Ali Sahib ra , Hadrat Mir Muhammad Ishaq Sahib ra , Hadrat Maulvi Ghulam Nabi Sahib Misri ra and Hadrat Sufi Ghulam Muhammad Sahib ra teaching the students. The First Regular Call for Due to the continual expansion of Tabligh activities, Hadrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad ra appealed to the people of the Community in his Friday Sermon of December 1917 to dedicate their lives for the purpose of the propagation of Islam. Remarking on the feeble condition of the Community and the tremendous challenges it faced, he said: “As regards numbers, as regards knowledge in apparent terms, as regards wealth, in fact as regards anything, let alone having a standing as opposed to our enemies, we are not even worthy of being called a Community. There are millions we have to teach Islam to and relate its reality to. In addition, it is difficult to even gauge the money that is being spent in comparison to us. Six hundred million Rupees is spent in preaching Christianity while there are seventy thousand Christian missionaries working in the world. The sphere of preaching is not limited to the missionaries; there are many other methods through which Christianity is propagated. They have opened