Ahmadiyyat Destiny and Progress — Page 37
Ahmadiyyat: Destiny and Progress 37 for two balls of cotton, particularly when one considers that cotton was not a commodity local to the region from which the trading caravan [which sought to sell Joseph as ] came from. Instead, it was imported there from Egypt. So, it is entirely possible cotton commanded a sufficiently high price for the woman in the story to think she could purchase Joseph as by it. The means with which this small group came to Qadian were as sparse as the [cotton balls] featured in the story above, indeed they are an even greater example of the kind of love which causes people to lose their senses and make unimaginable sacrifices. The blood which flowed through the hearts of these few hundred people supplicated before the throne of God. The parents of many who had gathered there could well have been alive; or they themselves could have been parents or grandparents too. But from the moment the world chose to mock them; to cast them aside; from when their kith and kin took them for fools and cut them off, this small band of people were orphaned in their seasoned years in so much as an orphan is one who is alone and without support. The world rejected them and they were orphaned. Then in accordance with the promise of God that the cry of an orphan shakes the throne of heaven, these forsaken souls came together in Qadian and called out to their Lord and the result