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! 41 sacrifices and devotion. Hadrat Khalifat ul Masih II (ra) mentioned the following incidents in this regard: “An Ahmadi woman from Jalandhar came to me and told me what she has gone through and how she has lost everything. Then she took out two pieces of jewelry and presented them to me in financi al sacrifice. I told her that you have already lost everything, and this sacrifice was asked from those who are here [in Pakistan] and have been safe. That woman was also saying that she has already given in financial sacrifice for the protection of the Ma rkaz [Qadian – the Ahmadiyya headquarters]. She said that she was only able to salvage these two pieces of jewelry. She said that when I heard about the difficult situation of the community I thought that all of my jewelry and property has been looted by t he disbelievers. Is there no part in [my property] for Allah? I have only these two pieces of jewelry and I give this in financial sacrifice. ” 28 “I have seen that the poor migrants from Qadian have paid so much in financial sacrifice that, if one was to ca lculate, no wealthy person has sacrificed even the hundredth portion of that. Whatever they had saved for their personal needs they have presented in front of me. I don’t know how many years it took for them to save that amount. No wealthy person did that. This was done by those whose income is less than 100, less than 75, even less than 50. ” 29 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! 28 Al - Fadl, February 1988, Page 5 Column 3 29 Al - Fadl, February 1988 page 5 Column 1 !