The Devotion of Life — Page 260
260 of the mistake by friends in that each one of them did not consider to be the sole representative of the Community and therefore did not make an effort. During the time of the Promised Messiah as Hadrat Maulvi Abdul Kareem Sahib ra was such a person. After him it was Hadrat Hafiz Roshan Ali Sahib ra and the third person to be saturated in this tint was Mir Sahib. The loss of his death is great because there is no one else like him in the Community. If there had been people like him, even then his death would have brought grief; the kind of grief one feels at the loss of a dear one, but the Community aspect would have been safe. We would not have been disappointed and would have thought that the Will of Allah the Exalted has taken one man from us but many of his successors remain. However, scarcity of good people is such that it creates hopelessness in everyone and when a worthy person passes away people say what will happen now? Opponents too say, now this Community will be destroyed; now there is no one to run its affairs. However, if, after a person, there are many worthwhile people left, then neither does oneself feel hopeless, nor does the opponent have any reason to be smug. If friends of the Community had understood their responsibility then the sense of dread that is found at present would not have been there. Thank God that He gave me timely wisdom to motivate young men to dedicate their lives, under which today young men are receiving education. However, our task is very extensive. ”