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43 lady to Islam and told her that Christianity had come to them with the olive branch but it failed. These Christian nations treated them cruelly and as against that we had been there for fifty years and as she could personally witness we were actuated solely by sentiments of compassion, sympathy and brotherliness. I gave her the commitment form and asked her to go through it and pray to God for guidance. I did not ask her to join the Movement right away, for religious choice is a matter of heart and so long as heart does not respond, conversion to Ahmadiyyat has no meaning. I asked her to pray to Allah, the Magnificent, and that when light shines on her she should fear none, not even her father, and accept the truth. Before her departure she asked Man su ra Begum over and over again to remind me to pray for her guidance to truth. The graces of Allah, the Glorious, carry with them comparable heavy responsibili- ties. I have this feeling and it has been impressed upon my heart with a great force that the coming 23 to 25 years are of crucial importance for the Ahmadiyya Movement. You have probably read ' Al-Fa d l ' of yesterday that the late Am i rul Mu’min i n