The Devotion of Life — Page 143
143 instructed that visits should be made to smaller villages rather than to large cities. He should travel a short distance of about two or three miles a day and should have a bearer to carry his luggage. Either the people from the villages could help or he could hire a packhorse. The real purpose would be that the message of ‘Allaho Akbar! Laailaha Illallaho Muhammadar Rasulullah’ should reach the villages. This way, propagation throughout one district could be completed by the start of the Summer Season. It seems from ‘Badr’ (30 July 1908, p. 1) that Sheikh Sahib began preaching in August 1908 and his plan was to cover the area from Amritsar to Hyderabad in his first expedition. All his domestic expenses were borne by Nawab Mohammad Ali Khan Sahib ra and he was paid his travel expenses by the Anjuman. After Sheikh Sahib, the appointment of Maulvi Mohammad Ali Sialkoti ra was made. He was a well known poet of the Punjabi language. In the beginning, he was sent to the villages and towns of Jammu, Wazirabad, Poonch, Gujranwala and so on. One of the responsibilities of these early Missionaries was to collect subscriptions and appoint new Anjumans. Hafiz Ghulam Rasool Wazirabadi ra was also one of the early appointees of the first Khilafat period. He was a great speaker and lecturer in the Punjabi language and his speeches had impressive effect. Hafiz Sahib did a great deal of work in those days. Hadrat Maulana Ghulam Rasool Sahib Rajeki ra was appointed, by the express orders of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra to Ahmadiyya Building Lahore, where he gloriously established Ahmadiyyat. Furthermore, in the period of the first Khilafat, he also travelled the length and