The Devotion of Life — Page 237
237 Mujahid. We are contending with those nations whose young men in pursuit of their goals did not get married for a great number of years and spent their lives in laboratories and met their death working on their desks. Some left most useful inventions for their nations. We are competing with those who, when ran out of ammunition and other weapons of warfare, got discarded guns from USA and prepared to face the enemy with them. Britain has declared that Germany may show aggression, but we shall fight them on the seas, we shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets and if we cannot compete, then our fleets of ships will take us to the New World (USA) but we shall never surrender; such are the people we are up against. We need people who would not move a foot away from where they have been told to stand except in the circumstance if their dead body were to fall a foot closer to us, other than that, a living person’s steps may, if at all, move a foot ahead but never behind. Such are the people we are in need of and such are the people who build nations. Allah the Exalted declares about the Companions of the Holy Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) that, “some of them have fulfilled their vow and some who still wait” (33:24). This is the devotion that brings about great changes in the world. ” Huzur ra adopted several resources to inculcate the ‘fighting’ and Mujahid spirit in the devotees: