What is Ahmadiyyat?

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 61

( 61 ) to organize themselves into 1 a Jamaat, so that· Ahe leader of : the J amaat can depehd upon them for his day-to-day pla. iJ. s. A Jamaat, therefore, was essential. . Without: 'it the · work ·of Islam could not have b'eeil done. If, however;. it is said that we might have had a Jamaat, but could still have mixed With other Muslims as ·thoug~ no differences existed. between. them arid us, the· reply is that this al~o was impossible. Work for Islam today e~tails great hardship, 11riselfisbness and · even danger to life. . I It entails sacrifices of a high order. Where can we find the men whp would· undertake such sacrifices? Yet they have to be found and trained,. and they have to have a high morale. - It i~. therefore, necessary to· separate those who. would. undertake. the. necessary. sacrifices. from thQse who have not made up their minds to do so. Unless this is ~one, unless- the workers of Islam are separated