Advice for Missionaries — Page 6
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 6 insight. Sometimes, when our missionaries visit certain places, they borrow books from the local people, but at the time of their departure, they have to return them or are asked to do so. Another benefit of purchasing your own books is that it offers you the liberty [to read them whenever you want], and not be dependent on the generosity of others. SEEKING AFTER CHARITY AND ADULATION Do not get into the habit of expecting charity, or flattering others and asking them for [financial gifts]. This is another major shortcoming amongst religious scholars. They will deliver a sermon and then seek a reward for it. And even when a person is not so brazenly shameless, they sometimes apprise other people of their needs in a more veiled manner. For example, they might mention the cost of caring for a large family, or use another pretext to suggest that they are in need of money or a winter coat or something. This behaviour is not appropriate. Trust in Allah and turn only to Him. The Promised Messiah as was told through divine revelation that wealth would come to him in such a way that those who would bring it would be divinely inspired to do so. And so it happened. There were people who claimed that a saint had come