An excerpt from the letter received from my brother, Maulawi Sayyid Tafaddul Hussain, Tahsildar ‘Aligarh, District Farrukhabad. May Allah the Exalted preserve him.
I have been greatly honoured by two letters from Your Holiness. I am extremely ashamed that I have not written to you for quite a long time. But I always remember Your Holiness. Your sacred name is always on my tongue and I often read your books and consider these to be the means of improving my life in both the worlds. Kindly send me fifty copies of the booklet Nishan-e-Asmani or as many as you would like to send me, I shall buy them and distribute them among my friends. The publication of Your Holiness' books always gives me the greatest pleasure.
Every member of my family is hale and hearty and remembers Your Holiness.
Humble submission by
Tafaddul Hussain
‘Aligarh, District Farrukhabad.
May 31, 1892
The above-mentioned Maulawi Sahib subscribes to the community fund and has already given a substantial sum out of his salary.
An excerpt from the letter from my brother, Nawab Muhammad ‘Ali Khan, Chief of Maler Kotla, may Allah, the Exalted preserve him
I have received Your Holiness' kind letter. For the present, I will purchase two hundred copies of the booklet Nishan-e- Asmani.
Muhammad ‘Ali Khan
Just a short time ago, Nawab Sahib bought my books worth five hundred rupees and distributed them free of charge, just for the sake of Allah.
An excerpt of the letter from my brother Hakim Fadal Din Bhairawi, may Allah, the Exalted preserve him.
Seven hundred copies of the booklet Nishan-e-Asmani may please be printed on behalf of this worthless one, and the money earned may be spent as you desire. At present, I am sending twenty rupees, along with two rupees, the remainder of his contribution from Muhammad Sahib Arab. After this I will immediately send one hundred rupees or more or I may bring it along myself sooner. Otherwise, I shall send it by money order.
(One hundred rupees have been received). Prior to this, Hakim Sahib has helped me with seven hundred rupees.
An excerpt of the letter from my revered brother, Maulawi Hakim Nurud Din Sahib, Physician, Jammun State, may Allah the Exalted preserve him.
We praise Allah and invoke His blessings upon His Noble Prophet(sa). With due regards, this most humble and unworthy one, wishes to submit before Your Holiness, the Messiah(as) of the Age, that whatever this humble and sincere servant and devout disciple possesses is all at your disposal—my family, my wealth, my honour, and my life. My good fortune lies in bearing the entire cost of printing and publishing the booklet, or as much as your holiness would like me to contribute. My brother Fasih is with me at the moment and says that if you would have the book printed at his press—the Punjab Press, Sialkot—it will cut down the cost by twenty-five percent.
Maulawi Hakim Nurud Din Sahib is unique in his sincerity, love and spirit of sacrifice, in his courage and generosity, in spending for the sake of Allah and his support for Islam. I know many a rich person, who spends a tiny portion of his abundant wealth in the way of Allah, but to give all of one's precious wealth to win the pleasure of Allah and suffer hunger and thirst and completely deprive oneself of all its material benefits, is a virtue that I have witnessed to perfection in Maulawi Sahib alone. Those of his companions, whose hearts are deeply affected by him, are also endowed with this virtue. Maulawi Sahib has so far given me three thousand rupees for the sake of Allah. In fact, the financial assistance that I have received from him is unparalleled. It is true that this kind of sacrifice is contrary to the ways of the world and the principles of economics, but how worthy is such a person in the eyes of Allah the Exalted, who believes in the existence of the Almighty Allah and believes that Islam is a true Faith and was sent by Him. He has also recognized and accepted the Spiritual Imam of the time and has annihilated his self in the love of Almighty Allah and His Messenger(sa) and the Holy Qur’an. And, besides all this, he spends his lawfully and honestly earned wealth in the path of Allah. Obviously, he is held in high esteem by Allah Almighty, because He says:
Only those love God truly;
Who spend all they posses in His path.
Day or night, they have only one concern:
To please their Beloved at all cost.
Even after offering their life and wealth to Him, again and again,
They still fear that they are worthless.
Only those, whose heart is set on that Holy One;
Depart from this world in a state of piety.
May God increase the number of men of such calibre and fortitude in this Umma, Amin.
1 Never shall you attain to righteousness unless you spend out of that which you love.—Al-e-‘Imran, 3:93 [Translator]
2 How wonderful it would be if everyone in the Muslim Umma were Nur-e-Din;
Indeed it would have been so if every heart were imbued with Nur-e-Yaqin (the light of faith and certainty). [Translator]
