The Devotion of Life — Page 290
290 could be earned in a day’s work. If one travels to France from India, it can be done by road. From here to Baluchistan, Baluchistan to Iran, Iran to Iraq, Iraq to Turkey, Turkey to Greece, Greece to Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia to Austria, Austria to Switzerland and from Switzerland to France. All this is land travel. We send Missionaries by ship so that they may reach their destination rapidly and commence work rapidly, otherwise God forbid if at any time we have no money left we will ask our Missionaries to travel on foot and take Allah’s message to people. In short, it is people who come first, money does not come first. In the absence of money, things can be done with people, however, if there is money but no people then nothing can be done. People can substitute money but money cannot substitute people. As sacrifices go, the real sacrifice is one that is made in the early stages. The sacrifice made once religion acquires dignity does not hold any special merit. A true sacrifice is one that is made when there is an air of hopelessness, when the whole world is of the opinion that a certain mission cannot be achieved. However, basing one’s belief in Divine Promises, one continues to make sacrifices with the conviction that God's work will be fulfilled, whether the world acknowledges it or not but it is my belief that this will be accomplished. However, when the situation is favourable and the world too acknowledges that these people have been successful in reality, one who makes a sacrifice at such a time does so believing in the people. Had he believed in the word