The Need for the Imam

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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The Need for the Imam — Page 82

82 personal but to the expenses of sect he has founded. He admits that he has other property but he stated to the Tehsildar that even the proceeds of that which is classed as land and the proceeds of agriculture and is exempt under 5 (b) go to his religious expenses. I see no reason to doubt the bona fides of this man, whose sect is well known, and I exempt his income from subscriptions which he states as 5200/- Under Sec 5(c) as being solely employed in religious purposes. Sd T. Dixon Collector 17-9-1898