Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 247
! ! 247 England. In reality, education and financial status play a large part in one’s cleanliness and training. In our country, to love a child is to turn him into a good - for - nothing, whereas in those countries , it entails in making them useful. This is a malady in our country where parents try to ensure tha t their child bear s no hardship , even though the hardship a child faces during training , is actually a source of comfort for him. This is because if today we do not inculcate the habit of hard work within a child and do not teach him good morals, then he will inevitably grow up to suffer greatly and we ourselves will be responsible for that suffering. Thus, from the very beginning, we should strive to raise our children in a moral manner and inculcate the highest qualities in them. W e should undoubtedly acknowledge that the people of those countries have some advantages due to their country’s circumstances. However, we must also rectify that weakness which is our own fault or is due to our own negligence. For example , there is an alarming weakness in our country’s children, which is that each one of them wishes to eat something separately. In t his way , the item is consumed in excess and secondly , children de velop the habit of extravagance. M oreover , their digestive system becomes upset. Yet, eating separately is quite common within our country. A person will invite a guest over , serve the m the food and then disappear , perceiv ing it to be an insult if he were to eat with the guest. Likewise , in side the home, the wife will spread out the tablecloth and s erve her husband with his dinner, and then run off to do other errands. T hey do not even sit together to eat. If you sit and eat together the food will not be wasted and order will be maintained as well. To rectify this , mere lectures are of no help. M oral training is require d. For this , a modus operandi [rules of practice] should be made for the nation. A book should be prepared which covers how women should train children so that women may read and act upon it. It would be im practical to expect a person to store those copies of Al - Fazl or Review of Religions [ publication s of the Ahmadiyya M uslim C ommunity] for reference where they have marked those articles