Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 454
! ! 454 does not exist and withou t it, progress is impossible. T herefore , I address the Lajna in particular. The Lajna of each neighborhood should organize and within one week gather together all young and old, assess their number , and compel them to join the Lajna membersh ip. F or those who refuse to enter [into Lajna Ima’illah] , consider them to be non - Ahmadi. In the beginning , there used to be one main Lajna meeting and it was attended by all members. Gradually indolence grew and work became reduced to neighborhood meetings. Now , it is limited to collecting chanda only. I have not received a report for many years now, so I am forced to reach the conclusion that no work is being done. It is for this reason that I have gathered you here today , so I c an give you some practical advice. Organize yourselves within one week. Enroll each and every Ahmadi woman in Lajna and from there , gather together and determine your priorities. Many women do no t observe proper p u rdah. Non - Ahmadis and corrupt individuals have congregated here , due to which our reputation is being tarnished. To allow these depraved women into your homes is akin to allowing a strange man in. Once again , it is against Shariah for a woman to travel without a male relative [ mehram – a male relative, i. e. , fa ther, brother, husband, or son], but I have come to know that some women travel to Batala and Amritsar without the guardianship of their men. Also, I have forbidden you to watch movie s in the cinema. Regardless of this instruction , there are some boys in the neighborhood who have made friends with the railway guards in order to travel to Batala without a ticket and watch movie s. Why do the owners of these c inema s allow them to watch a free movie? It is obvious that they have developed friendships with them and every friendship which is developed with a criminal intent is in itself a crime. Had their mothers been watching them, they would never have been able to go. Additionally, many people in Qadian own a radio and they listen to music. The purpose of the radio is t o listen to the news or to academic and literary topics. From today on, if I receive a report that any of you have listened to a song, even if you claim that it was a na’at [ in praise of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa ], he or she will be