The Detroit Address — Page 8
8 upon receipt of funds. If the flow of funds ceases, so does their service to humanity. Obviously, such people give real value only to money and not to the service. If the history of the Ahmadiyya Jam a ‘at [Community] is studied from this point of view, it becomes clear that the Jam a ‘at, even when it was utterly poor and without any resources, embarked on its mission to spread the message of goodness to nations in the West as well as in the East. There was no one in the world to financially help the Jam a ‘at. At the time when Hadrat Muft i Muhammad S a diq ra was sent to give the message of guidance to the great and mighty nation of America, Qadian was in such an impoverished condition that sometimes the Jam a ‘at functionaries could not even be paid their meager allowances sometimes for more than six months, and their families even faced starvation. As he could not bear the pangs of the suffer- ing of the workers of the Jam a ‘at, Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Ma‘ u d ra1 would make special appeals to some wealthy members of the Jam a ‘at for a loan or trust money which would be refunded in due time. In response to his distressful calls, God would show mercy, and some members would send generous donations 1. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II, Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra (1889–1965), was the second successor of the Promised Messiah as. He is also called Musleh-e-Mau‘ u d (Promised Son) be- cause he was born in accordance with the prophecy made by the Promised Messiah as in 1886 concerning the birth of a righteous son who would be endowed with unique abilities and attributes. [Publisher]