Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume II — Page 193
193 Now see this woman, whose support for her old age had been taken away from her. How b ravely she say s , ‘ How would the sorrow o ver my son’s death consume me ? A s long as the Holy Prophet sa is alive, I will swallow that sorrow instead. My son’s death will not be the cause of my death, but the thought that the Holy Prophet sa is alive and that my son sacrificed his life in order to protect the Holy Prophet sa will be the means of strength en ing me. ’ S ee , these were the magnificent sacrifices made by women due to which Islam spread in the world. In this age, we can observe th at women’s sacrifices for the cause of religion are not any less. In the 1920s, when I launched the scheme to collect funds for the Berlin m osque, the Jam a‘ at’s women, who were less in number than all of you sitting here , took off their jewelry and asked us to sell it and add the money to the m osque fund. ( W hen I had initiated this scheme, Umm - e - Tahir’s mother was alive. I was told after the speech that s he called her daughters and daughters - in - law right then and said, ‘ T ake off your jewelry and put it here. I will give all of this jewelry as a donation towards the Berlin M osque. ’ Thus, all that jewelry was sold, and the money was given towards the Berlin M osque fund. ) Hence, women gave so many sacrifices at that time that within a month , they collected a hundred thousand rupees for the m osque. This had a deep impact on the non - Ahmadis. Whenever they met Ahmadis , they mentioned this and said , ‘T his sacrifice ha s had a great effect on us. ’ Now, you are more in number than them. If that same faith is borne within you as was within the women of the 1920 ’ s, the n instead of a hundred thousand , you can collect five hundred thousand rupees within a month. However, it is necessary to develop that faith. When the partition [of India and Pakistan] took place and we migrated to Pakistan, an Ahmadi lady from Jalandhar [ a city in India ] came to meet me. We were staying in Ratan Bagh. She met with me and taking out her jewelry said, ‘ H u z oo r , put this jewelry of mine towards chanda. ’ I said to her, ‘ Lady , women care for their jewelry. The Sikhs have looted all of your jewelry, and this is the only jewelry you have left. K eep it with you. ’ She said, ‘ Huz oo r ! W hen I started my journey from India, I had pledged that if I reached Lahore safely, I would give this