The Devotion of Life — Page 192
192 ‘Sufis’ (may Allah be pleased with them) and that Islam did not spread in India through the government, rather it was introduced to India hundreds of years before the government came. Islam was propagated through Hadrat Muinuddin Chishti ra as well as people like Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, Fareeduddin Shair Ganj and Nizamuddin Olia. They spread it to all corners of the country by engaging themselves in propagating the faith of God. These people were not on wages, rather they had devoted their lives. They would give some time during the day to their own occupation and would spend the rest of the time in propagating religion. It is the same with other countries. Islam did not spread through the government there either; rather it spread through similar kinds of people. In short, this is the method through which Islam progressed in the world and which was also favoured by the Promised Messiah as. During the time of the Promised Messiah as this issue was pondered over and he appointed Syed Hamid Shah Sahib ra to draw out some guidelines. The regulations made by Syed Sahib were given to me by the Promised Messiah as to review and I submitted that they were adequate and Hadrat Sahib as also liked them. In order to put the guidelines into practice it was suggested that friends should devote their lives so that the Movement would not have the burden of their responsibility and that they would work for their livelihood and also be engaged in the propagation of Islam. They would be working under a system that would send them at any time to any