Odyssey of Sacrifice — Page 57
! 59 ne wspaper has written that we have stopped publishing their newspaper. Now, if their God has any power against Christ then let Him show a miracle. The Chief began to say ‘you stay here; I will at once go to the village and return. ’ So soon thereafter, the C hief returned and presented five hundred pounds to our missionary. Previously, the Chief had already given five hundred pounds. Thus, in total, he gave around thirteen thousand rupees and said, ‘it is my wish that you install a press as soon as possible, so that we can answer the Christians by saying: ‘though you refused to print our newspaper, our God has given us our own press!’ One thousand pounds, according to our country’s currency, is the equivalent of thirteen thousand rupees and it is such a large amount of money that even prominent traders do not have the capacity to give so much! They are extremely wealthy; however, they do not have the courage to give so much in chanda. He also wrote that, “before this, when the Chief initially gave five hundr ed pounds for chanda , I had met with a Syrian trader. I urged the trader to also give for this cause and told him that a wealthy man from a village had given five hundred pounds. The Syrian trader then said, ‘write five hundred pounds on my behalf. ’ He fu rther stated that at the present time I will commit to five hundred pounds; however, I will give more than this chief. ’ This is such a manifest proof that our God is a Living God! Here was chief of a small village who was so against Ahmadiyyat that he us ed to say, ‘it is possible for a river to flow upstream, but it is not possible for me to accept Ahmadiyyat. ’ Nevertheless, Allah still gave him the strength to join the fold of Ahmadiyyat. Not only did Allah give him the strength to join the Jama’at, bu t He also gave him the ability to present thousands of rupees to the Jama’at at once. ” Maulana Muhammad Siddiq Sahib Amritsari says: