Odyssey of Sacrifice — Page 67
! 69 “Inspector of Tehrik - e - Jadid writes that in February, this humble one along with respected Wakeelul Maal [Director of Finance] was on a tour to district Tamil Nadu. We reached Coimbatore Jama’at. A general meeting was organized after Maghrib prayers where Wakeelul Maal spoke about the motives and o bjectives of Tehrik - e - Jadid in details. After the meeting, pledges for the new year of Tehrik - e - Jadid were taken from everyone present at the mosque. A noble person had previously pledged Rs. 20,000. He was well off; usually, people from Kerala are well o ff. Wakeelul Maal asked him to see if he could pledge Rs. 100, 000 for that new year of Tehrike Jadid. After expressing his constraint, he agreed to the sacrifice. At that time. He had his two little Waqifate Nau daughters along with him. The inspector say s that as soon as the secretary Tehrik - e - Jadid reached home, the person who pledged Rs. 100,000 called and said that his daughters, both Waqifate Nau, expressed that the Tehrike Jadid pledge was not sufficient for them, and it should be set to Rs. 150,000. For that reason, he requested that his pledge be changed to Rs. 150,000. ” Extraordinary increase in the pledge – g reat sacrifice of a devoted Pakistani In the same Friday Sermon of November 4, 2011, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih (aba) narrated an incident of a n extremely devoted Pakistani: “Additional Wakeelul Maal Pakistan writes that a person in Sindh pledged Rs. 50,000. Due to recent heavy rainfall, there was turmoil in Sindh. Despite the damage to his crops, I asked him to increase his pledge, knowing he wa s a rich person. He agreed and increased his pledge to Rs.