Odyssey of Sacrifice — Page 79
! 81 Allah took care of him in such a manner that he was granted the Chancellor’s Scholarship and he received a check of 3,000 USD. He mentions that this was all due to the blessings of fin ancial sacrifice. How Allah rewards small sacrifices by increasing them manifolds! Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) mentioned this faith inspiring incident of a new convert from Ivory Coast in his Friday sermon of November 6, 2011: “Our missionary from Ivo ry Coast writes that one of our members Mr. Alido Oudrago accepted Ahmadiyyat in 2009 and started paying his chanda in accordance with his income from the very first day. He noticed various blessings of financial sacrifice during this time period. One day he was mentioning these blessings in front of some of the older members. One of these older members, who had accepted Ahmadiyyat in 2004, increased his pledge from 2,000 CFA to 5,000 CFA because of these incidents. He had not even started fulfilling his pl edge that he noticed that his income has increased exponentially. That same old member came back to me [the missionary] and after mentioning the whole story said that he had increased his pledge to 5,000 CFA but now he would like to increase this amount to 10,000 CFA monthly. Then, he started paying regularly in accordance with this pledge. Similarly, there are many other members who are improving in financial sacrifice. ” On November 9, 2012, His Holiness mentioned this incident in his Friday sermon announ cing the new year of Tehrik - e - Jadid: