A glimpse into the Life of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III — Page 7
accumulated fund of more than £50,000 with the greater part of the sum pledged by the U. K. community. Numerous schools, colleges, clinics and hopitals have been opened in Africa and several qualified teachers, doctors and dentists are operating in this continent under the Nusrat J ehan Scheme. His Excellency, The High Commissioner of the Gambia in the U. K. openly admitted to me the success of the Nusrat J ehan Scheme and said that the day was drawing near when the whole of the country would have received some benefit from this scheme and would have turned towards Ahmadiyyat. Al-hamdolillah! The financial resources of the community were to be fur- ther tested. At the 81st Annual Conference of the community held at Rabwah in 1973, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III announced another grand project which would set in motion a programme of the progressive development of all the branches of the Move- ment, speed up the propagation of Islam in all parts of the world and bring closer the prevalence of Islam throughout. The fifteen year scheme known as the Ahmadiyya Centenary Fund is charged with establishing more missionary centres in various countries, including Sweden and Denmark, the transla- tion and publication of the Holy Quran and other Islamic liter- ature in diverse languages, the establishment of printing presses, broadcasting stations and amateur-radio and telex communi- cations. It is fairly easy to draw up a consolidated balance sheet of such grand projects but if the youth of today are to learn anything from the life of their spiritual head, then they need to look at the personality that has caused this new era to draw upon them. I have been personally fortunate to have worked as Private Secretary to Huzur during my stay in Pakistan and I can present a glimpse of his busy life. Some of his attributes I have already mentioned. His normal working day begins very early in the morning when he prays and studies. Then he reads all his mail, making 7