The Moslem Sunrise, April 1922
Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Sadiqra (1872-1957)
The Ahmadiyya order is the strongest and the most forceful circle of all-around prayers and helping thoughts daily sent by its members to each other. Their mutual prayers and wishes are most sincere, unselfish and full of true enthusiasm and real sympathy. All our success and safety in this country is due to the Brethren’s Prayers. Many of Sadiq’s lovers are busy in praying for him and therein lies the secret of his welfare and prosperity. Allah-ho-Akbar – God is the greatest of all. Alhmado-Lillah – Allah be praised. It is a great boon to belong to such an order.
Muhammad Mohsin: “I offer prayers for you five times daily.”
Mirza Mubarik Beg: “Daily goes to his Hazrat Khalifa-tul-Masih my request to offer prayers for you, my respected Hazrat Mufti Sahib.”
Muhammad Ali Khan, Shah Jahanpur: “The seed of Islam sowed by you in America will someday grow up a big strong tree. I see an illustrious future before you.”
Mrs Strasser, Singapore: “The very interesting little journal, The Moslem Sunrise, found its way through Europe and finally reached me here in Singapore. I have read every word and cannot tell you how very interesting I have found it.
“We had a very interesting trip to the East. Port Said was our first stop. I visited the Mosque there and said a little prayer for dear Mufti struggling so bravely out in America. The Mosque was, oh, so beautifully clean, and all the members of your wonderful religion looked so Islam-like; peace was written on their faces. They looked so clean, and the Mosque was perfect in cleanliness.
“We met (what shall I say) the Mufti of the Mosque. I told him that I knew you and of your splendid work in the [United] States [of America]. He showed us several wonderful books which were Greek to me but I knew that they must have been holy books by the way he held them and the expression in his eyes.
“Before I return, I may have the honour of meeting the leader of the Ahmadia Movement. It will give me such pleasure to tell him that if he had looked all over India, he could not have found a more worthy person for America than yourself. May God bless you and your work.”
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Mr A Feit, England: “Your paper has filled me with glee. I have read it over and over again and I can gather that every one of my new brethren are worthy of being complimented on the articles which you have published for them.”
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Miss Edythe Wade, California: “I am enjoying The Moslem Sunrise very much and loaning it to friends to read, but I am not giving them away. You see, I am selfish in my own way – when I keep them, I have the chance to loan them again and still have them.”
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Mrs May Muhammad, England: “Your beautiful Moslem Sunrise is really a ray of sunshine, and I pray Allah will give you greater strength to penetrate those regions where the glad tidings of Islam are yet unknown and may Allah awake the world to realization to grasp the true faith now within their reach.”
Miss Mary A Hunt: “I cherish the acquaintance of so efficient and reverential a man as yourself.”
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Ghazi-ud-Din Yusuf: “What a blessed leader has God Almighty granted us in the person of Mahmud through whose efforts the Sun of Islam is shining over America and Africa.”
Maulvi Sikandar Ali: “I offer prayers for you in my Midnight services.”
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(Transcribed by Al Hakam from the original published in The Moslem Sunrise, April 1922)