Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 514
! ! 514 the success, when the spoils were dis tributed, this woman received a share equivalent to the men. After this incident , it became routine for the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa to take s ome women along when going into battle , to serve as nurses and look after the injured. Often, his w ives accompanied him and did the work of nursing. In the Battle of Uhud , the daughter of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , Haz rat Fatima h ra , accompanied them as well. There was no battle in which the female companions were left behind. For this reason, whenever righteous men are mentioned in the Holy Qur’ān , God Almighty has mentioned righteous women as well. If this same spirit develops with in our Ahmadi women , then Ahmadiyyat w ill progress far more rapidly. However, I regret to say that our Ahmadi women believe that performing t abligh or making sacrifice s for Islam is only the men’s job. They believe their job is simply to cook and take care of the children. How many among you preach regularly? I believe that from all the women who accept Ahmadiyyat, not even one out of a thousand d o women’s tabligh. Most of them accepted Ahmadiyyat because of their fathers, brothers , or sons. They are indebted to men for their faith. Thousands of women live in your neighborhood. Men cannot perform tabligh to women. O nly women can do so. If you truly understand your responsibility, then if every year, men bring in two to four hundred other men into the fold of Ahmadiyya t in Delhi, an d women bring in an equal number of women into the fold of Ahmadiyyat, it will not simply be two to four hundred men and four hundred women accepting Ahmadiyyat. Rather, it will be thei r brothers, sisters, sons , and daughters, who will also enter Ahmadiyyat and thus, the speed of tabligh will double. Yet, I ask you this : h ave you ever felt within you that desire to do tabligh ? Have you ever tried to understand the responsibilities and obligations of being an Ahma di? Ahmadiyyat does not mean that you simply give a few rupees to chanda or that you sprinkle some drops of water upon your face when performing ablution and then go