The Devotion of Life — Page 294
294 achieve Islam’s domination over the world. For this, firstly, each person in the Community should have the urge that they must become from one to two, from two to four, from four to eight, eight to sixteen, sixteen to thirty two, from thirty two to sixty four, and sixty four to one hundred and twenty eight! After all, our Community numbers are in hundreds of thousands; if every ten years each person makes two or three Ahmadis, this would mean that in the next ten years, they could grow to about 2 million and in the next ten years 8 million and in the next ten years their numbers could reach more than fifteen million. If this was to happen then we can hope that these fifteen million people can take the message of Islam to 200 million people. However, if this was not to happen and each person was to deem that it was sufficient for him to give the ' chanda' ( monetary contribution ) , then who will take Islam to Europe and America? If there is no one to preach, then who will be there to accept? People of Europe are now getting inclined towards Islam, however, their biggest impediment is that Europeans view everything in a political perspective. Their prominent personalities fully understand that if Islam has reached them it is through Ahmadi people, however, Muslims who hold the majority are against the Ahmadis. In such a situation it is not particularly useful for them to join a minority, whereas if they are to join the majority they could do something useful. Such suspicions can only be removed when our Missionaries reach them and remove their doubts. It is obvious that meeting once or twice does not avail much. For this, frequent and continuous