The Devotion of Life — Page 191
191 colleges and schools, established hospitals, published books in their hundreds of thousands and opened orphanages. If all these expenditures were to be overlooked and an estimate of only the wages of the seventy thousand missionaries was made, with a wage of approximately one hundred Rupees per month, then the expenses of these missionaries would run into an amount similar to that of the income of the ‘Nizam of Dakkan’. Just the expenditure of the missionaries and what is spent on their allowances could not be less than two hundred million! Compared to this, although our arrangements are non-existent, and if our Community were to endure hardship and donate all their earnings even then it would be nothing compared to this. It is similar to a case of ‘One Pomegranate to a hundred ailing’. Some physician had the problem of facing a hundred ailing people with just one pomegranate to offer; but here it is a case of one pomegranate and millions of ailing!” Presenting a solution to these problems Huzur ra said: “While pondering over this issue, I have deeply reflected over the history of Islam and have realised that there are certain resources that have not yet been utilised. Islam did not spread in the world the way we are doing our Tabligh. Now the question is, what was the method of the Muslims through which Islam spread throughout the world? It should be remembered that it was the method of our esteemed