Khilafat Centenary Souvenir 1908-2008 — Page 171
Mau ' ood as said, "If ten thousand Urdu or English subscribers are found in thisJama'at to support the magazine, it will start running satisfactorily. In my opinion if those who have pledged allegiance make an effort in this respect following the essence of Bai'at, it is not a great number to achieve. In fact, it is a very small number considering the total current membership of theJama ' at. " (Al-Hakam, Volume 7, number 32 , page 19). In fulfillment of Huzur as 's above-mentioned desire Hadhrat Sahibzada Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad , then Amir of the US J ama 'at,, submitted to Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih rv rra in October 1998 that the US Jama'at would take full financial responsibility for the publication of 10 ,000 copies of The Review of Religions. Huzurra appreciated the US Jama'at's offer and graciously accepted it. Since then, the US Jama ' at is especially blessed to honor this responsibility with a yearly contribution of $100,000 to Markaz (central headquarters) Al-Hamdolillah. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih rr ra made a magnificent statement about the American people in his Friday sermon delivered on Januar y 20 th 1956. Huzur ra was informed of an incident wherein some Ahmadis from Sindh (Pakistan) met a few non-Ahmadi people in a train who asked them several strange questions. This led the Ahmadis to suspect that the latter, perhaps, belonged to the Central Intelligence Department of the Pakistani government. In his above sermon Huzur ra mentioned this incident and said: "By the grace of Allah, there is a large community of Ahmadis in the USA. The Missionary In Charge of USA, Khalil Ahmad Nasir, has informed me that the USAJama'at Chanda (subscription) has reached up to $40,000 (forty thousand dollars). This is a large sum; nevertheless we consider it next to nothing. We hope that one day our missionaries will inform us that the subscription ofJama'at-e-Ahmadiyya USA is not forty thousand, not four hundred thousand, not four million, not four hundred million but rather, forty billion dollars, which is ten thousand times the annual income of Pakistan. That will be the day for us to believe that USA has accepted Islam. We give no importance to trivial sums of money. How important is this sum to the USA? For the USA, it means very little. The day when the USA gives a subscription in billions of dollars for the propagation of Islam, when there will be hundreds of thousands of mosques, and adhaan (call to prayer) will be heard from hundreds of thousands of minarets, and hundreds of thousands of Imams will lead pra yers in congregation, that will be the da y when we will believe that the USA has made a move. " With Allah's grace, the US Jama' at has made phenomenal progress in the field of financial sacrifices through the blessings of Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih rr ra 's vision to collect billions of dollars for the propagation of Islam seems close to reality. The chart below gives a glimpse of this progress and future projections. Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya USA "As far as assistance from the government is concerned, some statements from ministers of the Pakistani government have been published in newspapers alleging that the US government has Progress in Financial Sacrifices Percentage Progress Since 1954-1955 given so much assistance to the government of Pakistan. Assistance to the US has not been announced by the government but assistance to the government of Pakistan has been publicly declared and published in the newspapers. Even Fiscal Year 1954-55 1959-60 1964-65 1969-70 1974-75 1979-80 1984-85 1989-90 1994-95 1999-00 2004-05 2006-07 the Governor General has stated as to how much assistance Pakistan has received. " Huzur ra continued: Collection ($) In 20 years, 1954-55 to 1974-75 172% 20 ,676 11 351 In next 20 years 1974-75 to 1994-95 5 240% 14 114 31 ,658 In next 10 Years , 1994- 95 to 2004-05 285% 56 199 218 359 In last 3 years 2004-05 to 2007-08 15. 5% 603 786 2,044 ,582 In last 53 years, 1954-55 to 2007-08 64 ,365% 3, 001 ,039 6, 331 ,375 Projected Collections in 2060-61 $8,579, 103,300 11 544 159 At the Same Rate of Growth i. e. 8. 579 Billion 13,800,706 As of last 53 years As envisioned by Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih rr ra in 1956 , theJama'at -e- Ahmadi yya USA, is rapidly marching towards the goal set by Huzur ra. The graph