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285 nobleman. Khwaja Sahib did not wish people to connect his visit to England with the instrumentality of any Ahmadi nobleman. He wished to create the impression that he was going out not on business nor in consideration of any fees received from a wealthy client but at his own expense and at the sacrifice of his professional work and only in order to proclaim the name of God and overthrow all ungodliness from the world. "I fear, O wayfarer thou shalt not reach the Kaaba. For the path thou art treading leads to Turkistan!" It has been said in defence of Khwaja Sahib that the gentleman who provided Khwaja Sahib’s expenses wished to remain anonymous. But did this gentleman also wish to broadcast the wholly false impression that Khwaja Sahib was going to England at his own expense, at the loss of his profession and for the sake of the propagation of Islam? Supposing that Khwaja Sahib had started for England without having made any such announcement, was there any likelihood of the public coming to know that it was any particular gentleman who had sent him to England? The affair was a secret and no non-Ahmadis and only a few Ahmadis knew anything about it, and the few who knew could not at all be misled by any false reports. What purpose, then, could there possibly