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! ! 211 َﺗ ۡﻔ ِﺠ ًۡري ا ُﻳ َﻔ ِّﺠ ُﺮ ۡو َﻧ َﻬ ﺎ ا ِّٰﷲ ِﻋ َﺒ ﺎ ُد ِﺑ َﻬ ﺎ 'َّ ۡﺸ َﺮ ُب َﻋ ۡﻴ ًﻨ ﺎ “ A spring where from the servants of Allah drink – they make it gush forth – a forceful gushing forth. ” (Holy Qur’ān , Ch. 76: V. 7) When people accepted Islam during the time of the Holy Prophet sa , they were killed. Haz rat Bilal ra wa s forced to lie on hot sand and was beaten, while nonbelievers would command him to say, “ Laat is God,” o r s uch and such idol is God. However, Haz rat Bilal ra would only respond by saying , “There is none worthy of worship except Allah. ” Despite suffering so greatly, he never lost his faith. Thus, maintaining one’s faith is no s mall matter. The barriers to Paradise are difficult to remove and th ose who plough the canals of faith , commit great sacrifice s. Here , the analogy of the canal is used, because digging one is done so with great difficulty. If a person was to dig a canal by himself , he could never do so. Now , if the men or women of our Jama'at believe that they will obtain faith without sacrifice, know that this is impossible. Faith requires much sacrifice. There are two types of sacrifice : one is imposed by God and the other humans impose upon themselves. The first type of sacrifice , i. e. , that which is imposed by God is , for example, when som eone ’s child or spouse dies. A person has no hand in this; h owever, a person does have control in the other form of sacrifice. For instance, it is a sacrifice that a person makes when they become a believer, despite intense opposition from their brother, wife, or son. Such a person does not allow them to steer h im away from the path of faith. That is ploughing the canal of faith. Likewise is the case of a woman who accept s the truth, or a boy or girl who has recognize d the truth and remains steadfast, without fearing the opposition. That is the canal which they have ploughed. Among those who professed their faith as children , was Bhai Abdurrahman Qad i ani ra , who was formerly a Hindu. His father came