A glimpse into the Life of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III — Page 18
at the Annual Gathering, counselling with them, addresses the Gathering on five different occasions (opening address, Friday sermon, annual review, annual address to the ladies and the final address) and attends to all other duties connected with the post of Khilafat. Truly, he is no ordinary human being. Preaching merely for the sake of Allah On numerous occasions, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III has urged his community to preach for no other purpose but to earn merit in the eyes of God Almighty. He has often said that the people of Africa cherish and love Ahmadiyyat because of its sincere effort. We have never withdrawn a penny from their countries. In fact, the funds collected from stringent economies exercised by members in Pakistan have been spent overseas. On the other hand, missionary efforts of our Christian counterparts were cloaked under the bible carried by the missionaries while behind them m3rched the armament of colonial empires. Once a doctor sent to Africa under the Leap Forward Nusrat Jehan Scheme wrote to Huzur that there was a possi- bility of African countries nationalising the hospitals and clinics established by the community. Huzur asked me to write to this doctor to tell him that, "We shall be greatly pleased to see our African brothers standing on their own feet. Whenever they can look after schools and hospitals, we shall invite them to manage our schools, colleges and hospitals. We have opened these schools and hospitals for thei1 r welfare. We seek no monetary or political return on our investment. We have entered this field of missionary work merely to seek blessings from Allah by serving His beloved people!" We have a very modern secondary school at Kumasi in Ghana. A few years ago, this school was taken over by the Government and under the Africanimtion policy it was announced that the school would be put under the charge of an African headmaster. At that time the headmaster and the majority of his staff had been sent from Pakistan. Upon the 18