Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 123
124 themselves to the Holy Prophet sa in Medina in order to achieve this objective and carry out this command, and stay there to be educated on religion. One after the other a party would arrive; a succession of it continued in which the means of sustenance of faith were laid. For example, history reveals that once fourteen emissaries arrived from Bahrain, eighty people visited from Hadarmaut (Yemen), and similarly once a deputation consisting of seventy or eighty people of Banu Tameem paid a visit to Medina to acquire the knowledge of faith. These deputations acquired the knowledge of faith and taught their people when they went back to them. I have cited only a few examples to make our Jam a ‘ats realize that now they probably do not send even a single person for the classes being held here (Rabwah). This will not do. Instead people will have to come here in scores, only then we can do justice to the service of Islam. Anyway, I will go into detail of this aspect when I will have completed the discussion on these objectives which are like Divine promises. I will then discuss what our responsibilities are with regard to these promises, for all these responsibilities are laid on the Muslims and particularly on us, the Ahmadis, in this age. The thirteenth objective was discussed in the word, (and those who remain theirin for devotion) and was told that a people would be raised by it [Ka‘bah] who would devote their lives for the cause