Blessings of Khilafat — Page 78
78 possible to help it and as many warriors as possible to protect it, for it can never have enough. The indulgence of Muslims in politics at this point of time is such a poison, the consuming of which will make it hard, nay impossible, for them to survive. Politics demands too much attention, and those who indulge in it get absolutely lost in it. The war going on in Europe today is such that every country is trying to provide as many soldiers to fight as it can, even women and young boys and girls are being trained to provide assistance. A small number of soldiers are not going to be enough for such a terrible and dangerous war. But, the war which is faced by Islam today is much larger in scale than that of Europe. Islam is alone in its fight against the whole world, and the enemy is so strong that it can bring thousands of soldiers to battle against a single soldier of Islam. Even the Muslims are getting estranged from Islam and are Muslims only in name. They are as far from Islam as the people of other religions are from their own faiths. Hence, a mere few are not going to achieve any success in this war; rather, every old one and young one and every woman should get ready to take part in it. When a house is on fire, it is not the water bearer who is called to extinguish the fire just because it is his job to provide water and is paid for doing so. Rather, at that time, everyone runs towards water to collect it so as to spray it on the fire and extinguish it, and even women and children get involved to help. Similarly, today the enemy has set fire to the house of Islam. He is certainly foolish who waits for mere water bearers to come and extinguish it. This enormous fire that has engulfed the house of Islam from every angle cannot be extinguished by a handful of people. Rather, every person with even an iota of faith in his heart is under the obligation to work on extinguishing this fire. It is the obligation of every one of