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vi hundred years, God Almighty has sent His divinely commissioned one among us. To leave his pure com- pany and pursue coins of gold and silver is but to con- sume the carrion of this material world. It is to trade the superior for the inferior. I swear by God that if all the treasures of the world were piled before me and in return for this if I was asked to leave Qadian, I would not even spit on this heap of gold and silver. ” 1 Hazrat Maulana Abdul-Karim Sahib was a shining star in the sky of Islam and Ahmadiyyat. His brilliant example will forever serve as a guiding light. 1 Al-Hakam , dated 16 August 1922