The Devotion of Life — Page 298
298 are going to come from, my concern is that where will those people come from who will look after the funds. ’ Similarly, I too am not concerned where people to do Tabligh of Islam will come from, my concern is who will look after the people wishing to devote themselves as they will come in great numbers. Allah the Exalted has control and power over hearts, the heart that He shall purify will come forward for the service of faith. Seeing them in hundreds, others will follow and offer themselves for Waqf and these hundreds will grow into thousands and from thousands in to hundreds of thousands. When we were little we used to read a story that when a cloud emerges the raindrops argue amongst themselves; one says why should I drop on the earth and give my life, the other says why should I give my life. Eventually, one raindrop comes forward and drops on the earth, after it the next raindrop falls, then the third, the fourth, until heavy rain starts falling. It is the same with sacrifice for faith. When the pioneers make sacrifices, people observe and remark that nothing has happened to them, we had assumed that they would be destroyed but they are held in greater deference than us and they have achieved greater success than us; let us follow in their footsteps. This is how they too offer themselves for sacrifice and thus the succession grows until such a position is reached that one wonders who to keep and who to dismiss, who to choose and who not to choose.