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The Spiritual Revolution
manner! (Monthly Ansarullah, Rabwah, September 1977, pp. 14–15)
Hadrat Maulavi ‘Abdul Mughni writes further about his father Hadrat Maulavi Burhan-ud-Dinra: After accepting Ahmadiyyat the financial situation was such that for months during this lean period the family did not even set eyes on ghee [clarified butter]. Instead of buying fuel, dry tree leaves were used to lit a fire. However, dry leaves do not cook a meal, so the dal [pulses] was first dry roasted in the house and then ground. Water was put in a pot with salt and chilies and the leaves burnt underneath. When the water boiled the dry-roasted and ground dal was added. This would be our meal eaten with bread. Usually it would be millet or corn bread and occasionally wheat bread. Instead of ghee, sesame oil was used. In place of spinach, young shoots of tree were cooked. His clothes would be of the old time farmers, and not of the maulavis.
He adds: On meeting with the Promised Messiahra he developed a passionate love, affection, enthusiasm and fervour for him and it was due to this passionate love and obsession that he absolutely did not care for his own food and comfort. He was obsessed to pass on the spark of the passionate love that he felt in his heart for God, the Holy Prophetsa and the Promised Messiahas, to others. At all times he would be thinking with enthusiasm, passion, concern and anxiety on how to spread the message of Ahmadiyyat. He did not care for food, water or clothes! Allah the Almighty alone knows 227
