The Devotion of Life — Page 267
267 you, you say, what will happen now? Why do you not change this condition of yours that when, with the Will of God, someone passes away you should not feel the concern in the least as to how this Movement will now function. In fact, you should have hundreds of other people to do the task. If a needy person with only one overcoat loses the jacket he is deeply saddened. However, a well-off person with fifty jackets will not feel much sadness at the loss of a jacket in the knowledge that he has forty- nine other jackets. Likewise, if our Community was to get spiritually enriched, then one person’s death cannot perturb it. Try and enrich yourself spiritually. You should have hundreds of theologians, hundreds of experts on Hadith , hundreds of commentators and hundreds who are experts in the study of the Holy Qur’an. Hundreds of you should be experts in moral philosophy, hundreds expert in Mysticism, hundreds should be experts in logic, philosophy, jurisprudence and lexicography. Hundreds among you should be experts in all knowledge of the world so that when any one of these hundreds passes away you would still have several hundred scholars left and your attention is never drawn to ‘what will happen now?’ Man does not sorely feel the loss of something that can be obtained at any time and anywhere because he is aware that he has hundreds of similar things at his disposal. Likewise, if each one of us is an expert in arts and sciences, then no one would ever be concerned about the future if one of the scholars died. This thought only arises when we let these people be few and far between and rare and do not