The Devotion of Life — Page 21
21 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS O God! O’ The True Accomplisher! Overlooking faults and Creator O’ my Beloved, my Benefactor, my Providence, How should I express thanks and gratitude my Bountiful? From whence should I find the tongue, which may carry out this task? (Durre Thamin) I am writing these words with feelings of extreme gratefulness to Allah the Exalted. It is an immense Grace and Mercy of Allah that He has granted me the opportunity and ability to publish this book on ‘ – Its Importance and Blessings’ first in Urdu and now in the English language. The inspiration for undertaking this task effaced from the special attention Hadrat Ameerul Mo’mineen Khalifatul MasihV aba has right from the beginning paid to the training of the Waqfe Nau children and his spirited addresses for the guidance and advancement of ‘’ scheme. May Allah enable us to offer our lives for service and sacrifice under this Scheme to facilitate the victory of Ahmadiyyat. Ameen. Those who helped me with the preparation of the subject matter for the Urdu version are many and I pray that Allah reward them abundantly. However, there are some renowned scholars of Ahmadiyyat whom I would like to mention here particularly. Maulana Dost Mohammad Shahid, the historian of the Ahmadiyya Jama’at first of all very kindly explained to me the various aspects of the vast subject of the importance and the blessings of ‘Waqf-e-Zindagi’ (). Then, upon completion of the Urdu manuscript, he went