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! ! 458 ramifications of engaging in them. In this way, a person learns to recognize moral behaviors and the reward of doing so. The result is that such a person struggles to save them selves from vice and strives to progress in doing good. Thus , the true means of moral training is by teaching women the Holy Qur’ān and Hadith. The Negligence S hown by the Residents of Qadian in R egard to the Religious Education o f Girls I have reiterated countless times that although men are obli ged to learn English for employment purposes , women are not obliged to do so. For the most part, they should mainly conc entrate on religious education. It is with much regret that I am forced to say that due attention has still not been paid to this matter. Religious s tudies classes have been set up to educate girls , but I have noticed that only those girls who wer e unable to gain admission into college or who have not achieved high marks attend these classes. If this is the attitude of the people of Qadian, then one can accordingly deduce what Jama'ats outside of Qadian are doing. Out of His Grace, God Almighty has provided us with every possible facility for attai ning religious education. If they choose to do so, w omen can very easily attain religious education, but de spite the availability of every means possible, the people of Qadian have foregone the opportunity to utiliz e [this facility] and pay little attention to the se religious studies classes. Assigning Responsibility The next important issue is the placing of responsibility on women for certain tasks. A person who is assigned a position of responsibility develops the ability to think and deliberate. God Almighty has created the human intellect [in such a way] that the more a person utilizes it, the more he discover s the hidden treasures of knowledge. This is so because God Almighty has embedded the human mind with a secret version of the Holy Qur’ān. For this very reason , the Holy Qur’ān is also called the Kitab - e - Maknun [ the Hidden Book]. One version of the Qur’ān is that which is evident, and every person owns this physical version of the Holy Qur’ān. Ho wever , God Almighty has taken another version of the Holy