Ahmadiyyat Is Not a New Religion — Page 3
3 On the other hand, people here are not satisfied until they get full value for their money by reading the entire newspaper. Their example reminds me of a careless man who lived in Qadian. He was the nephew of a long-serving attendant of the Promised Messiah as. Hazrat Khalifatul- Masih I ra often urged him to offer daily prayers, hoping he would gain at least some understanding of religion. On one occasion, he bought some ghee [clarified butter] from the store for eight anna , only for a cat to gobble it down. Incensed, he chased after the cat and killed it with a staff. Using a knife, he then cut open the abdomen, squeezed out the ‘butter’ from the entrails, and stowed it away. When asked if he had recovered it, he said, ‘I drew out ten chataank [583 g], not just half a ser [466 g]. ’ Similarly, our people want to extract ‘ten chataank of butter’ from the newspaper. Having spent minimally, they wish to squeeze out a maximum return. In truth, a person who learns even a single valuable point from the newspaper should consider it a return on their money; even one useful sentence surpasses the value of one anna spent on the newspaper.