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! 72 started being returned to me, my money which had been defrauded from me was returned, and by means of all this my income increased. ” 46 If you are grateful, I will, surely, best ow more favors on you Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) mentioned various incidents in his Friday sermon of November 3, 2006 which are an embodiment of the fact that when sacrifices are made with the sincerity of heart and when they are remembered with grat itude then as a result God bestows even more blessings. He mentioned this incident in the following words: “Just yesterday, I received a letter from a friend that he was thinking to pledge Rs. 3000 at the start of the new year of Tehrik - e - Jadid, and that h e should increase it to 5000 to include his wife, children and elders. But then he thought how would I ever pay this amount? But then he says that he decided that he will pledge 5000 rupees with the help of Allah. He says, in the meantime, a person came to me and handed me an envelope. When he opened it there were 3000 rupees in there. Someone had sent them to him as an Eid gift. He says that he was being grateful to Allah and was just thinking to increase his pledge and Allah has already blessed him. In th is duration, another person came to him and handed him another envelope with Rs. 5000 in it which someone had sent to him as a gift from abroad. He says that he thought that he has only considered increasing his pledge and Allah has started showering his b lessings upon him. Allah, as He has said, returns manifolds so he !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! 46 ! Khutbate Tahir, vol. 3, p. 607