An Introduction to Financial Sacrifice

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98 mother to children, a father to youth and a source of security for women. A brother will help another willingly and with love without any coercion, nor will he go unrewarded, for he shall receive the best reward from Allah. Neither the rich nor the poor shall be the loser. No nation shall fight another, and its blessing shall encompass the whole world. " 111 "…Hence, Sign your Wa s iyyat s as soon as possible, so that New World Order may be created and the blessed day may dawn when the banner of Islam and Ahmad i yyat shall fly all over the world. To those who have already made their Wa s iyyat , I offer my congratulate and pray for those who have not yet done so that Allah enable them to do so, and they may also gather for themselves blessings, material as well as spiritual. I also pray that through this system the world may be compelled to admit that from this apparently backward village of Qadian, shone forth a light which dispelled the darkness of the world and then filled it with the refulgence of true knowledge—knowledge which abolishes pain and misery, and makes it possible for the rich and the poor, the high and the humble, to live together with love and affection. " 112 In his concluding address on the third day of Jalsa S a l a na UK, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V at spoke about the importance of Wa s iyyat and urged Ahmad i s to fully take part in it. H u du r said: "…In 2005, Insh a’ all a h it will be a hundred years since this institution ( Wa s iyyat ) was established. The Promised Messiah as established it in 1905…and today, after 99 years, only 38,000 Ahmad i s have signed Wa s iyyat. Next year, a hundred years will be completed since the institution of Wa s iyyat was established, so as I said earlier, I wish to exhort the Jam a ‘at to come forward and join this heavenly institution in order to 111 Ni za m-e-Nau , p. 131. 112 Ni za m-e-Nau , pp. 133-134.