Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam

by Dr. Karimullah Zirvi

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Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam — Page 400

− needy, and the new converts who may not have adequate means of livelihood while they are members of the Movement. And it shall be permissible that the funds should be strengthened by investing them in some profitable enterprise. Do not think that this is only an idle talk about things still in the remote future. This is the resolute purpose and Will of the All-Powerful Allah Who is Master of the earth and the − Heavens. I have no idea how and where from these funds shall come and how a community of people shall come, who in their zeal for their Faith shall accomplish all these heroic things. To speak the truth, my anxiety rather lies on the score that after us the people may not stumble who shall come to be entrusted with the care of this wealth, and lest they should take to the love of this world. So I offer a prayer that the Movement may remain always blessed with honest people who shall labor only for the sake of their love of God. Of course such of them as might happen not to have means of sustenance of their own, it would be lawful for them to receive something by way of aid in expenses. 3. The third condition is that he who aspires burial in this Cemetery shall be one who went through life with care, who kept away from what is forbidden, did not commit Shirk (Setting up of equals with Allah), nor any harmful − innovation, and he shall be a simple and straightforward Muslim. A righteous person who possesses no property, so that he cannot render any financial help to the Movement, if it can be shown that he lived a life devoted to the cause of Islam, and was a good man, he shall be − eligible for burial in this Cemetery. " (The Will pp 34-44) 400