Odyssey of Sacrifice — Page 63
! 65 A u nique f ruit of Tehrik - e - Jadid – b eing b lessed with p rogeny On November 5, 2004, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) mentioned this interesting incident about the paying of the donations of the Tehrik - e - Jadid : “I remind the Jama’ats once again that they should establish and expand these connection and should focus on their education. Get rid of your sluggishness, and involve these new people in financial sacrifices as well even if they are only donating a little bit as a token. Similarly, as I have said, parents should try to involve new children as well. Especially children who are waqf [devoted ], rather all children should be involved. Rather, the faith of some Ahmadis is renewed by the fact that someone did not have any children so they started paying Chanda [donation] of Ta ḥ r ī k - e - Jadid in the names of their [unborn] children. They started paying 400 rupees, according to 100 rupees a child (this is someone from Pakistan) and Allah blessed them in such a manner that after a while they had hope for children and now they have fo ur children. Allah granted them the number of children according to the amount of donation. Sometimes, Allah shows signs right away. As I have said, even if you give paltry amount from your children but if it is given with sincerity then this small amount receives great reward from Allah. And Allah shows such signs to many in the Jama’at. And then, because of this donation, because of these blessings your houses will keep on getting filled with these blessings. ” In his sermon of November 9, 2012, Hadrat Kh alifatul Masih V (aba) mentioned a young man from Ireland in these words: “President of Ireland [Jama’at] wrote to me that a young couple decided that when they are blessed with offspring they will devote it [in the way