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! 90 “A poor woman has written that, ‘when I saw my sisters partaking in [financial] sacrifice all around me, I was filled with pain that what I should do? I have nothing to sacrifice. ’ She writes, ‘suddenly, I had this thought that I have this cow which I have kept so that my children can have milk. [I said to myself] You have this cow. If your desire to sacrifice is so intense then present this cow [in financial sacrifice]. So this cow is no longer mine. Until, you take this cow away from me or sell it off, I will take the mil k from this cow but I will pay for that milk. ’ Such eccentric lovers these are!! The world cannot possibly fathom what an Ahmadi is; what the reality of an Ahmadi is!! They cannot even realize your physical, how can they possibly view what is inside of you. ” “ A lovely letter arrived from a young girl. She wrote that a cassette was playing, in which you were describing the sacrifices of women. The young girl stated, “I felt a strange urge in my heart and I asked my mother, ‘did this not affect your heart at all?’ As I was asking this, I looked up towards my mother and noticed that she was taking off her earrings as she was crying. I realized that I had been unfair to my mother. These were the only earrings she had. On one end, the daughter’s heart is u rging to act and on the other, the mother was already preparing to make the sacrifice. Are these the people the cruel enemies will obliterate? By God, they will never be able to do it! You have been raised to live forever. It is the spirit of Muhammad ( sa), the Chosen One, which is coming to life in your souls. It is the purity of the Prophet Muhammad (sa) that is giving you a new existence, one that God will not allow to be eradicated. This can never happen – it is not possible. The whole universe ca n be obliterated, but not the spirit of