Odyssey of Sacrifice — Page 47
! 49 I have been receiving amazing letters. One young person wrote from Pakistan that Allah granted him some work from which he raised money to buy a car. When this scheme was launched, he did not have any money left. I received a letter from him stating that he thought a lot about this scheme and with each passing day he realized that this is not an ordinary scheme. In the last fourteen hundred years no community has been given such an opportunity. No one has been called to such a unique service that they should present translation of Holy Quran in hundred languages in a few years and then spread translations of the Holy Quran throughout the world. Such a large number of translations [of the Holy Quran] have not been done in the history. I thought that in future, InshA llah [if Allah wills] , in every part of the world, translations of the Holy Quran will be available. People will look back at our time with envy and wish that they were alive at our time, so they could contribute [to this scheme]. This young man expressed his sentiments beautifully. I did not know that he could write such beautiful Urdu. His words wer e embellished by his emotions. He has expressed himself in a delightful way. He wrote, one day, Allah gave me an opportunity to sell my car for fifty thousand rupees, which I offered for this scheme. [He wrote that] I am not writing to tell you that I made this sacrifice. I am writing to tell you that you cannot even think of how much I enjoyed it. Words fail to express the joy I felt. Now I joyfully ride my cycle and as I paddle I thank Allah. This is the gratitude to Allah that we need to celebrate. The highest mercy from Allah is the ability to make sacrifice, and this is a reward in itself. Forget that you will be rewarded in the