The Devotion of Life — Page 446
446 previous kings had undertaken by building the mosque. ” (Malfoozat Vol. 5 Page 418) Comparison of Written and Verbal Preaching In response to a question by Shahzada Sahib about whether it would be more useful for the Promised Messiah as to visit the cities in Punjab and other parts of India to preach instead of remaining permanently in Qadian, the Promised Messiah as said, “The real issue is that preaching resources are different according to conditions in different times. The freedom of this age is a good thing, but there are shortcomings as well. The method suggested by you has already been tried by me and I have travelled to some places for this purpose. My experience is that our time objective cannot be achieved in this manner. People speak out during a speech, sometimes cursing, and create a disturbance with their shouting. Once here in Lahore, even though we were in our own house and we had police protection, a man stood up during a speech and cursed us. The late Mian Mohammad Khan, sincere and loving towards me, swelled with anger but I stopped him because it was against our principles to retaliate. In short, we have tried this prescription extensively in Amritsar, Lahore, Delhi, Sialkot and have found that it is fraught with mischief. In Amritsar we were stoned, one stone hit my son. Some members were hit with shoes. A believer is stung only once from one source. How can we repeat something we have already experienced? The second problem is that transcribers of verbal