Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 380
! ! 380 Recognize your Responsibilities Regar ding the Training of your Children a nd Apply all the Principles of T a hrik - e - Jadid within your Daily Lives Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Bashir - ud - D in Mahmud Ahmad, Khalifat - ul - Masih II ra December 27, 1938 , Jalsa Salana After reciting Tashahhud and Surah Al - Fatihah , Haz rat Khalifa t - ul - Masih II ra said: I n our country, there is a popular tale. In fact , there is even a proverb about which it says, ‘ The crow forgot his own style of walking when trying to walk like a goose. ’ The story goes that a crow happened to see some geese and came to like the way the y walked. He thought to himself , ‘I do not like the way I walk. ’ He picked up some goose feathers, stuck them within his own feathers, and began to walk like them. But how long could he continue to do this ? The geese viewed him a s a strange bird and began to strike him. He left the geese and went back to his own flock of crows. However, since he had adopted the geese’ s behavior for some time and had forgotten his own, the crows stuck out their beaks and struck him over and over again, pushing him away. The crow now stood all alone, neither belonging here nor there, accepted neither by the geese nor by the crows. The moral of the story is that whom ever God Almighty has chosen for a particular task will have the capacity to perform that task well. There is a saying in Urdu , ‘A job only suits the person to whom it is assigned. ’ When someone attempts to do another person’s job, there are bound to be mistakes and confusion and it will be detrimental to the end result. God Almighty has divided humans in two : into men and women. God Almighty has bestowed upon them some similarities, as well as some differences. For example, both genders need food for their survival. It will never be the case that only men need food and