Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 348
! ! 348 need to repair or replace a broken piece. Many of these instructions are for the rich , but some are for the middle classes, and some are for the poor as well. Use your savings to buy properties. With this scheme, poor women will also be able to participa te in purchasing a property. V illage women can come together and contribute two rupees each to buy a property worth two hundred rupees and then rent it and share the income equally among them. In this way , poor women can contribute when the need for chanda arises. If every individual begins to save what they have and buy property, then in a brief time , a great many things can be built. When you r financ ial state strengthens , you will find many opportunities to serve the Jama'at. If women co n vert jewelry worth a thousand rupees into property, at the very least, they can earn a monthly income of five rupees. However, this is not an order, lest the weak are tested, f or t he Promised Messiah as has said that women love their jewelry more than they love their relatives. Many of you have jewelry , but you do not pay the Zakat. In this way , you can save yourself from the punishment of not paying the Zakat. A nd if you possess jewelry, you must pay Zakat on it. If you buy property with your jewelry, you can generate a monthly income. You shall be able to spend with ease and spend in the way of religion as well. You can buy property by coming together. Where ver it is established, Lajna should make an effort. W here there is no Lajna , it should be established. Village women should take out an hour or two from their day to make baskets etc. , and thus earn at least one or two coins. Skilled women can earn twenty to thirty rupees per month. However, since I have instructed against excessive decorations, you should make simple goods, such a s ornamental hair ties or long skirts. I propose that starting from February 1936, an exhibition should be held from now on. Women from all over should send items and these items can be sold in that exhibition. Th e exhibition should be held in Lahore and women from all over should attend. Women from Hyderabad , Deccan, Bengal, UP, Sarhad, Punjab should all attend. These days , when there is so much opposition against us , women can help by performing tabligh to other women. Wom en from