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273 said, ‘Each village is obliged to extend hospitality to an outsider for three days. ’ One of his Companions said, ‘O Prophet of God! If the people of the village do not give food, what can be done?’ The Holy Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) replied, ‘Take it from them. ’ As if it is our right that we may stay for three days and the village people are obliged to feed us for three days. I believe the Holy Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) has indicated towards the ways of Tabligh here and has said that if you eat food from a village for three days that is not charity. Although, if you stay more than three days and ask them to feed you then that will be charity. If our friends of the Community were to act accordingly and step out of their homes for Tabligh and spend three days in a village, town or city to do Tabligh, it would make a tremendous difference. If people of a village or town are quarrelsome, then as Jesus as said, ‘They should dust their feet off and step onwards. ’ I believe the matter of Tabligh will be resolved in one day!” (Tareekh-e-Ahmadiyyat vol. 9 p. 564-565) An Exclusive Plan of Forty-Day Prayers for the Victory of Islam On 17 th March 1944, after leading the evening prayer at Mubarak Mosque, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra stood in the pulpit and announced: “I have thought of a proposition which I wish to mention. It is that for forty continuous days prayers