The Devotion of Life — Page 233
233 light of the significance of work during this Phase, I have stipulated the condition that only those young men would be chosen who are either graduates or ‘Maulvi Fazal’. Those who are neither graduates nor ‘Maulvi Fazal’ will not be chosen because these people have to do some academic work for which either worldly or religious knowledge is needed. In this Phase, with the exception of three or four people who are not graduates, for they are remaining from the previous lot, the rest are all either graduates or ‘Maulvi Fazal’. At present there are four graduates and four 'Maulvi Fazal'. In total there are probably twelve young men. Four of these are not graduates but with the Grace of Allah the Exalted all of them are hard working and have a love for the Movement. My objective is that some of them are sent, in addition to the centre, outside for education so that young men of such stature are prepared with regards to academia and practicality, who can match the best young men of the world, rather excel them, in matters of Tabligh , education and training. I am not just considering religious education; my objective is to provide them with all kinds of worldly knowledge and teach them all the sciences of the world so that the capability to take charge of all matters of the world is inculcated in them. As I mentioned in the last 'Majlis-e- Shoora' , my plan for these young men is to send them to Europe to acquire the best possible education. When they gain expertise in all sorts of knowledge then they should be paid just allowances and not salaries. The amount of their