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111 middle of the night. S he ran in the jungle for about seven or eight miles. Finally, she found her son near Batal a a nd while it was still night, she brought him back to Qadian. The fact that up till this incident , her son was still not reformed hurt her so deeply that she went to the Promised Messiah as the next day and beseeched him while crying, “ I have only one son. My husband has died. I only request you that you pray that he recites the Kal i ma [ declaration of Islamic faith ] before he dies. I don’t desire his life. I don’t desire his health. I only desire that he does not pass away while opposed to the Holy Prophet sa. ” The pain and anguish with which she spoke had an effect. God Almighty heard her prayer and the Promised Messiah as also prayed. After seven or eight days her son became a Muslim and three or four days after becoming a Muslim he died. Now pay heed to the fact that she was an uneducated woman, yet her heart yearned that , ‘I should leave such children after me who would be followers of the Holy Prophet sa. ’ If Mua ’ vi a’s wife had also had the same anguish in her heart that, ‘I should leave such children who would follow the commandments of the Holy Prophet sa , ’ Yaz i d would not have been born. Instead, Sa y eed [source of happiness] would have been born. However, she did not understand her responsibility and only wished for a boy who would keep her name alive, a nd she thought that she had no responsibility other than [this]. Women can B estow Permanent Faith upon the World Thus , if they want, women can bestow everlasting [devotion to] religion in the world. I f they want, women can g rant the world such fait h which is everlasting. And this job is so great that the conquests of Napoleon, or those of Taimur, or Queen Elizabeth, or of any other k ing are worthless in its compar ison. The Holy Qur’an says that you should establish religion for all time. But how can this be done? If I make the next generation more religious than the previous one, then how can Satan conquer [such a generation]? Men have fought against Satan and have always failed. At the most, they were successful in keeping just one generation steady on the path of religion. It is only women who can fight against Satan for all time. If women decide that we will turn the next generations into servants of religion , then who will Satan be able to corrupt? The next generation is