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210 brother was now close to accepting Ahmadiyyat. However, Chaudhry Fateh Mohammad, who is in charge of that area, informed me that he is already Ahmadi and is present here at Jalsa Salana. Just look how great are the blessing s of God Almighty , that the same brother who would not come to Rabwah ; h is sister br ought his child to Rabwah in the hopes that perhaps her brother would come here because of the child, and h e is now an Ahmadi and is present here at Jals a Salana. ” After this, Ha z rat Khalifat - ul - Masih II ra said : “ T he women have informed me that there were some good aspects of the arrangements of last year’s Jalsa Salana , which were missing this year. For example, the y told me that last year fifteen to twenty Khuddam [stood in such a way] as to split the road which went from the Jalsa site to my house into three thoroug h fares. W omen walked on one side, men on the other side, and cars passed through the center lane , b ut this year this arrangement was not in place. It is surprising that although arrangements should improve every year, this year, they h a ve worsened. Instead of improving the system this year by increasing the number of Khuddam who would [stand on duty] to divide even more roads into three pathways, this arrangement has been totally abolished. This has caused inconvenience for the ladies …” ( Al - Fazl , 16 Febr uary 1958 , p. 4) “ I appealed to women to raise one hundred and fifteen thousand rupees for the construction of the Holland M osque ; out of which they have already donated ninety - nine thousand rupees. B ut the estimate that came from there [Holland] was for one hundred and thirty - four thousand rupees and in reality, one hundred and seventy - five thousand rupees have already been spent. The T a hrik - e - Jadid records show that women have already donated ninety - nine thousand rupees. On top o f that , the construction of the London M osque was also constructed by women’s contributions. Actually, the women had collected contributions for the construction of the Berlin M osque. When I had asked for donations for that m osque , women took off their jewelry and collected chanda from that. So , land was bought for the Berlin M osque with that money , b ut the government had imposed some severe restrictions due to which we sold that land, and we used the money from that sale to construct the m osque in London. About one hundred and fifty thousand rupees were spent on the construction of this m osque. Then two houses were bought for £ 7,250. Today £ 7,250