A Letter to a Dear One — Page 107
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan 107 under study. © a ñ rat Mirza Bash ī r Ahmad Sahib is preparing a brief history of the Ahmadiyya Movement, which should be published during the year with the title of Silsilah Ahmadiyya. This should also be read. If you try and complete these books in the next two to three years then you will at least have knowledge of the history of Islam and Ahmadiyyat. You will also have an idea of what is required of you by Islam in this age and you will be aware of your true duties. My other objective will be thus fulfilled of its own accord; as the eldest in the next generation of this family, you will comprehend your responsibilities well and will begin to carry them out. This will indeed give me the satisfaction that the responsibility that I have taken upon myself is well understood by the next generation and that they will try their best to accomplish it. I have written this rather in a hurry and might have made a few errors and at places not got my tenor across. Read it carefully and whatever does not seem clear to you, please ask for an explanation and try to instill that in your mind. Allah willing, this should help you a lot and you will thus be spared of much exploration and searching and will be able to train yourself on religious and moral principles. May Allah make you benefit fully from this and may He fulfill the objective for which I have written this. May Allah forgive me if I have said something here that is erroneous or if it is not in the spirit of the teachings of Islam, and may Allah protect you from its effect. Ā m ī n. Wassal ā m. Humbly, Zafrulla Khan Shimla—31 May 1939