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! 43 like throwing your money down the drain, and especially such newspaper, whose founder is Mahmood, who is the probably the most despised in the present time, still gave two pieces of her jewelry to me to be sold and used for starting this newspaper. One item was her personal bracelet and another was her bracelet from her childhood which she had saved to be use d by our daughter, Nasira Begum. I took these bracelets and went immediately to Lahore and sold them for 475 Rupees. This was the startup fund for Al - Fadl. Al - Fadl will keep alive my helplessness and my wife’s sacrifice with it. How true that woman is a si lent worker. Her example is like the rose flower which is used to make perfume. People remember the store where they bought the perfume but no one thinks of the rose which died for their happiness. I wonder if Allah did not create these means what would I have done. Which door of service would have opened for me?” 31 Allah will definitely build a house for that poor woman Regarding the sacrifices of women, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) says: “It is the blessing of the Khilafat that you are seeing such sac rifices from the poor and needy of the Qadian, the like of which cannot be presented from any other community. Even today, I was surprised, when a woman, whose entire fortune is 100 - 150 Rupees and who has converted to Islam from Hinduism, came up to me and offered me five bills of 10 rupees each for the extension of the mosque. At that time I thought in my heart that this woman has donated half or one - third of her entire wealth for !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! 31 Tarikh Lajna Im aillah, vol. 1, p. 16