The Detroit Address — Page 18
18 Due to this attitude, Jam a ‘at Ahmadiyya suffered a tre- mendous loss beyond your imagination. What a truthful statement Hadrat N uh as had made when he said: If I drive them away, this would be such a great sin in God’s sight that none among you would be able to help me when Allah’s decree would be enforced. What a glorious time it was—full of glad tidings—when Hadrat Muft i Muhammad S a diq ra came here. He threw wide open the gates of Ahmadiyyat for those who are called the blacks, and received them warmly with open arms. In those days sending a telegram was a rare thing. Usually, people would write letters. Telegrams were sent only as an exception. Even on an urgent occasion, people would write a letter but ask the addressee to consider it as a telegram. It was a com- mon practice to do so in the villages of the Punjab. In those days Hadrat Muft i Muhammad S a diq ra got so excited that he started sending telegrams one after another to Qadian telling the Jam a ‘at about a revolution here and a revolution there. People were joining in great numbers, and entire commu- nities were being converted. The khu t b a t [Friday sermons] during that time of Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Ma‘ u d ra were full of Allah’s praise that a representative of a very poor community, whose workers did not have food in their homes, went to the richest country in the world and conveyed such good news that, by the grace of God, hearts of the people opened up