Africa Speaks — Page 41
i ~ , DAIL Y GRAPHIC carried the following report in its issue of April, 23, ! PREPARE FOR TASK AH EAD - MASIH III His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Khallfatul Masih III, Supreme Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement, has called on students to realise that they were engaged in the sacred task of learning and preparing themselves for the great role they are destined to play in the affairs of the country and the world. Addressing Muslim students of the Kumasi University of Science and Technology at the University's Great Hall, he said that the information the students gather from the class room should be utilised and be made part of their being and transformed into something genuine, real and useful. His Holiness said that knowledge is an infinite, persistent and conti~ nuous process which has no "halts nor wayside stations", ·11 : They have, therefore, only to continue to be students and researchers ,~ throughout their lives, and either relax or stop at their own peril. They should, however, not forget that in the pursuit of such ends, the only way to success is to invoke divine guidance, he said, Danger The Khalifatul Masih said they should always be aware of the danger inherent in man's godless quest for knowledge and urged them to watch each step they took towards the journey to study and control the pheno mena of nature. 'The looming shadows of an atomic holocaust which mankind faces today" he observed, "result from the blunder man has committed in divorcing his material effort from the protective shell of prayer". "Physical knowledge does arm man with power but prayer gives him the sight and sense to use this power properly. Divorced from prayer, knowledge becomes a curse", he stressed. Dr. A. A. Y. Kyerematen, Director of the Ghana National Cultural Centre, presided. GHANAIAN TIMES carried a similar story in its issue of April 23.