Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 305
THE REN AISSANCE OF ISLAM 305 During the Annual Conference of 1944, in addressing the women, on 27 December, the Khalifatul Masih admonished the members of the newly established Association of Women that their first duty should be to establish literacy among all the women of the Movement. Their second step should be to take adequate measures to instruct all the women of the Movement in the principal commandments of Islamre1ating to the salat, fasting, etc. The third step should be that every woman should know the purport and meaning of the salat, so that her worship should not be like the cry of a parrot, not knowing what she is saying. The last step should be that every woman should know the meaning of the Holy Quran:. . . I would be satisfied only when everyone of you knows the meaning of the Holy Quran, and I would be happy when every one of you not only knows the meaning of the Quran, but also understands the Quran, and I will be truly happy when everyone of you can expound the Holy Quran to other women, and my happiness would be even greater when God Almighty becomes a witness that all of you have understood the Holy Quran and are diligent in acting upon it.