The Future of Ahmadiyyat — Page 12
‑ 12 ‑ [Indeed there was a time that] whenever an Ahmadi would visit Qadian, their name was recorded by the authorities. [There was even] a police constable who was dispatched to the town to record the names of all those who visited it. Qadian was, in the eyes of the authorities, a place of miscreants where visitors were kept under surveillance. This opposition continued for a long time, but one by one the Promised Messiah as drew people towards him, and Ahmadiyyat progressed to such an extent that the total number of Ahmadis residing in Qadian today is more than those who used to gather here for the annual conventions during the lifetime of the Promised Messiah as. In the last Jalsa Salana held in his lifetime, the attendance figure was 700. And this was considered to be such a manifest sign that during one jalsa, Huzoor went for a walk but returned shortly afterwards saying that it was too difficult to