Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 535
! ! 535 A New Era for Misbah Magazine Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Bashir - ud - D in Mahmud Ahmad Khalifat - ul - Masih II ra In Qadian, in the ‘New Era of Misbah ’ edition, Ha z rat Khalifa t - ul - Masih II ra blessed the magazine with his following writing: “You must have learned through the Al - Fazl or other means that Misbah is now under the auspices of Lajna Ima’illah. Now men are free of this responsibility, but it does not mean that they are completely forsak ing any involvement in this. According to Islam , men and women are not two separate entities, neither are they two separate parts, rather they are two parts of one entity. They are not one in entirety, because they each are given their own rights. T hey are not two parts because they are not permitted [by Islam ] to live separately from one another. Thus, according to Islam , they are two parts of one entity. They cannot therefore renounce their responsibility toward s one another at any cost. J ust like you can never lose your interest in men’s publications, similarly they cannot lose their interest in yours. It is vital to maintain complete unity of both parts of one entity, otherwise both will be rendered useless. They cannot survive separately since they are components of one unit. They cannot antagonize each other, or their union will prove futile to both. If one part does not support the [function of] the other, it will instead damage it. In this way, they would not even achieve that wh ich they could have individually achieved. Therefore, do not think of your separate magazine as an individual entity, rather, one part of a combined project. Just like one class in a school is divided into two or three sections; it is the same class [grade] only divided into separate sections to facilitate its function. The teacher of one section teaches the same thing as the other, yet more teachers assume a smaller number of students to pay closer attention. The Law - Maker of Islam is Allah, who is neither a man, nor a woman. He does not therefore, side with men or women. C ome then, let us work together following the commands of our Just Creator. ”