The Devotion of Life — Page 320
320 of our Missionaries are imprisoned or in a captive state. About twelve of these are in Eastern Asia, for example Maulvi Rahmat Ali Sahib, Maulvi Shah Muhammad Sahib, Malik Aziz Ahmad Sahib, Maulvi Muhammad Sadiq Sahib and Maulvi Ghulam Ahmad Sahib. Apart from them there are a few local Missionaries, some of them were appointed here, some there. We have no information about these Missionaries. It is our duty to remember them all in our prayers because they have gone to these countries on our behalf for Tabligh of Islam. Allah the Exalted has declared a few things an obligation and Tabligh is one of them. That means if no one in the nation does Tabligh then the whole nation is sinful and culpable of Allah’s wrath. However, if some people engage themselves in Tabligh then the nation is not deemed sinful. Had these people not gone abroad for Tabligh, the Ahmadiyya Community would have been sinful in Allah’s sight and would have become guilty of His wrath. Allah would have deemed that this nation has completely abandoned Tabligh, just like the Muslims- when they were negligent in their duty towards Tabligh and they did not have people remaining among them who would leave their homeland, their families, and abandon their comforts to go to foreign lands to bring people in the fold of Islam, they became guilty of His wrath. Therefore, it is certainly the right of those people through whom Allah has made our Community the recipient of His chosen Blessings that we remember them in our prayers. We should give precedence to