Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 378
! ! 378 that if these conditions had p resent ed themselves a few years earlier, the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa would have forbidden women from attending the mosque. He sa would have revoked the permission he sa had given women to visit the mosque. The possibility of the Holy Prophet sa revoking his permission tells us that the women of th at time or women from other nations were in all probability not observing proper p u rdah. In all likelihood, people were complaining about them, and so she ra responded in this manner. Similarly , some people raise such objections in Qadian. D espite Haz rat A’isha h ’s ra object ion, that period is known as the best of times , for she objected only for the sake of the women’s reformation and not because the whole nation had been spoiled. However, t his does not mean that we should continue such practices , but we should worry over how we will change them. Such a reformation ca n only be achieved by counseling the youth about such practices, so that they cultivate a spirit within themselves and become capable of showing the true face of Islam and Ahmadiyyat. ( Al - F azl , April 10, 1938, p. 3) Lajna Should be Established Everywhere and all Adult Ahmadi Women Should be Made Members Excerpts from the Friday Sermon Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Bashir - ud - D in Mahm u d Ahmad, Khalifat - ul - Masih II ra October 28, 1938 , in Delhi The three sections of the Jama ‘ at, including m en, women , and children should weave their respective auxiliaries together and ac complish real training. This movem en t has three major parts: the first is the reformation of men, the second is the reformation of women, and