Odyssey of Sacrifice — Page 54
! 56 Mosque Fund Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) while discussing the blessings of Allah in his speech at the occasion of Jalsa Salana UK in 2003 mentioned a few incidents about the Mosque Fund in the following words: “ Jibreel Saeed, our missionary from Ghana, writes that I went to visit Togo with a friend, Al - Hajj Muhammad Agboobey. We off ered the Zuhar prayers in a place called Najong under the scorching sun. Al - H ajj Muhammad Agboobey said that it is the right of these people that we build a mosque for them. It is a new and a very small Jama’at in a very small village. So, he made a great sacrifice and built a beautiful mosque for them. This Mr. Al - H ajj is a nice, wealthy individual. Three Hundred people can offer prayers in this mosque and now they are building minarets for this mosque as well. And even though this place is in a far - off, r emote area and it is difficult to get material to this place but this Mr. Al - H ajj is still sending building material to this place with much difficulty and expenditure. ” “ Sadar Lajna [President of Women’s Auxiliary] of Ivory Coast writes that this year at the occasion of the meeting of the Majlis - e - Shura [the consultative body], an appeal was made to collect donations for the central mosque as this was the 50 – year Jubilee of the Ivory Coast Jama’at. The members of Lajna pledged 100,000 CFA right there and t hen, and the secretary Tehrike Jadid , who is a devoted Ahmadi, fulfilled the pledge right there as well. It is a great amount for those people. Even though 100,000 CFA is only equivalent of 135 GBP but it is a huge amount for Africa especially considering that this lady only owned a small vegetable shop and had a large family as well. ”