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200 who found him wherever he was in order to learn religion from him. Men would avoid coming near him out of fear (John , Ch. 20: V. 19). Thus, the Bible also tells us that women made more sacrifices than men in the early period of Christianity, whe n the men became afraid of government censure , but the women did not. At every place, they managed to break through the police and army guard to reach Ha z rat Jesus as and sat at his feet to learn religion from him. Thus, the history of every religion tells us that women have accomplished a great deal. I have mentioned that when I initiated the scheme for the Berli n M osque, Ahmadi women of that time raised a hundred thousand rupees within a month. Now you are trying to raise money for the m osque in t he Hague , b ut it is regretful that you are not trying as hard as the women of the 1 920 ’ s , even though you are ten or fifteen times greater in numbers than them. They collected a hundred thousand rupees, whereas you have collected seventy thousand rupees so far. When the land , which had been purchased for the Berlin M osque from their c handa was sold, it generated fifty thousand rupees over the original price. T hat money was used to build the London M osque, so actually the London M osque was also built by the money of those women. The Berlin M osque could not be built because the German government had imposed some conditions due to which the cost of the construction of the m osque w as too much. So , we sold the land purchased for the [Berlin] m osque and the money from t hat sale was used to build the m osque in London. So, the women gave their chanda towards the Berlin M osque and the London M osque was also built with their money , and it is women who are collecting funds for the m osque at t he Hague as well. Men have not even been able to collect funds for the Hamburg M osque yet. This is because though women seem weak, when they make up their minds to sacrifice, they make far greater sacrifices than men. Just think about how much a mother sacrifices for her child, which the [father] cannot. In my childhood, I read a story of an eagle who took a child from his mother, and this eagle put the child on the peak of a mountain. That mountain was so steep that no one could climb it , b ut when the mother saw that the eagle had placed her child at the top of the mountain, she madly began to climb it and took no notice that the mountain was high