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! ! 272 current newspaper. Although weekly magazines and other newspapers are useful, they cannot provide information that a daily newspaper can. I receive five daily newspapers a nd fifteen to sixteen magazines. H owever, I have observed that very little attention is paid to the daily newspapers in my home. Women tend to read the magazines , even though the newspapers contain more information. One’s knowledge advances by reading the news, not by reading articles. Read ing opinion columns is a folly. N ews is more valuable. I have never read the opinion of journalists because I formulate my own opinions. W e should all devise our own opinions. Pay pa rticular attention to the news and do not trust another’s opinion , for o pinions vary. One revelation of th e Promised Messiah as can render one person a disbelieve r and another person a believer, or in other words someone may opine that it is a lie, while another person says it is true and so the truth is revealed to him. Hence, both will have their respective points of view. The on e who reads another’s opinion will be impressed by the opinion and not the real facts. As an example, I will refer to a news article published in a Lahori Jama ‘ at’s newspaper P ai gham - us - Sulah. During the early days of my Khilafat , there w ere article s published in it with headlines such as ‘ The truth has been exposed ,’ ‘The secret has been revealed ,’ and ‘ Mahm u d ’s conspiracy has been disclosed. ’ Yet, the news articulated within these articles was that I wandered around at night, asking people to get up to offer Salāt and pray that the Jama'at is saved from turmoil. Upon reading this, many friends wrote and asked whether it was true. I replied, “Why do you worry ? I s pray ing a sin? I did not ask anyone to steal or to engage in looting. ” Therefore, one shou ld never be afraid of newspaper headlines. It i s Crucial t o Read Al - Fazl a nd Misbah [Jama'at Publications] With reference to [periodicals] of the Jama ‘ at it is essential to read our newspapers, such as Al - Fazl and Misbah. Knowledge of the Nizam - e - Jam a‘ at [administrative set - up of Ahmadiyya Jama ‘ at] will be gained from them. Some people do not read them because they believe that the articles are too long, complex , and are beyond their comprehension. Others feel that the articles are too simple, ordinary , and that reading them would be useless. Both of these viewpoints are