Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 528
! ! 528 t o be both truthful and straight forward. Four Pieces of Advice After giving you these words of advice, I bid you farewell with prayers. If people implement this council, then God Almighty will also bless your efforts in tabligh. He will bless your affairs and will draw the victory of Islam near. It is these four walls up on which the structure of Islam stands. I will now pray and bid you farewell. While praying for yourselves and your relatives, keep in mind to also pray for the progress of Islam and Ahmadiyyat , and for the success of the missionaries , who have traveled to faraway lands in the service of Islam. To such places, where no pleasure or comfort is available to them. Where there is no one to listen to their conversations. Where there is no one to sympathize with them. Where th e re is no one to share their burden. Yet, they immerse themselves in the service of Islam night and day. Governments have become their enemies. The public is against them. Society gazes upon them un favorably. In short, people at all levels of society oppose them, but they continue to convey the teachings of Islam and Ahmadiyyat to people. Therefore , while it is your duty to not shirk from doing whatever you can for the progress of Islam , you should also pray for those missionaries , who offer so much sacrific e. I received many telegrams for prayers at the occasion of this gathering , but I cannot read them out to you now. It will be sufficient to say that we should pray for our friends , in particular the missionaries , who are especially deserving of our prayers. Actually , it would be in correct to say that they need our prayers. Rather, the reality is that it is incumbent up on us to pray for them , for they have left their countries to work on our behalf. Their claim has now been laid upon us in such a way, that their rights can only be fulfilled by our prayers and supplications. Other than this, we have no other way to fulfill their rights. Now , I will pray for you and also for Islam and Ahmadiyyat.