Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume II — Page 226
226 Which means, ‘People from all corners of the world will come to visit you. ’ Now , A merica is also a corner of the world from where you both have come. What was your interest in Qadian ? If your intention was only to sightsee, you would have gone to Bombay [Mumbai] , Calcutta , etc. , and other big cities. Bu t you came here, and you came only with the intention to meet me , a nd it is said in this revelation that people w ill come to you in great numbers from the corners of the world. The roads will break down and be pitted with holes. Y ou must have seen it coming here. H ow bad the roads are from Batala to Qadian a nd God gave me this news forty years ago. So now if the two of you have come here to meet with me all the way from America , then you two are the miracle. ” Such is your condition too. Every wom a n from amongst you can say that she is a living sign of the truthfulness of the Promised Messiah as. There was a time when even the relatives of the Promised Messiah as were against him , but now his name ha s spread to all corners of the world. During the life of the Promised Messiah as , this area which is our headquarters , had no Ahmadis. Closer to the time of his death , there was only one Ahmadi here , b ut now there are thousands of Ahmadis in District Jhang. In 1952 when we e migrated here, there were only five or six Ahmadis. But now two to three thousand people have accepted Ahmadiyyat and with the blessings of God Almighty, those who have joined Ahmadiyyat are well to do. It is amazing to see how God Almighty has guided these wealthy people towards Ahmadiyyat. Every other person from this area who comes to visit me, when I have asked them how much land they own, the replies have been ten , twenty , or forty m urabbay [ twenty - five square acres ] of estate. Today one square acre is worth around fifty or sixty thousand rupees. There are very few people who own less than two hundred square acres of estate. If that amount is totaled, then I believe that almost twenty - five thousand square acres of land belongs to [those who belong to ] the Jam a ‘at. Consequently, fifty m illion [ r upees] worth of estate has emerged only in this district and this revolution has occurred in a very sho rt period of time. It was only a matter of three years during wh ich this revolution took place. Now look ! is this or isn’t this a miracle? A gentleman named Pir Munawar - ud - D in used to live in this area where there are Ahmadis. He even went to Qadian and upon his return , he told his followers that Mirza Sahib see ms to be telling the truth and that