First Grain of Sand — Page 203
TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER TO HAZRAT KHALIFATUL MASIH II 187 any hope of surviving. So I gave a message to a Pathan [refers to an ethnic group primarily found in Afghanistan and northwestern India at that time] who had already converted to the Ahmadiyya Movement in prison and asked him to deliver it to you under the trust of God Almighty. I told him to go to Qadian and tell my master that one of his loving souls, who was saturated with love for the Ahmadiyya Movement in every part of his body, was martyred in the Soviet Turkic region, and at the time of his murder his last words were that the mirror of God is the perfect man who appeared in the valley of Arabia and whose spiritual reflection appeared in this age in the town of Qadian by the name of Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas. And there was absolutely no doubt in his heart when he was killed because he was the spiritual son of the Champion of Allahas. Huzoor, remembering you would reinvigorate enthu- siasm in my heart, and this enthusiasm produced a mag- nificent movement of Ahmadiyyat within the govern- ment. And while a large number of people had made a firm determination to kill me, most certainly as God as my Witness a section within the government began to accept the Ahmadiyya Movement. As such, whoever especially came to visit me in my cell within the Tashkent prison did not leave until he had accepted the Ahmadiyya Movement. There were about 40 such people [who joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community], some of whom were very sincere and dignified. There was a Turkish man who served as the translator between the interrogating