Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume II — Page 167
167 concerned with just the beauty of the work , but rather how long it takes to make it. Hard work is really what counts for them. For instance, if one woman spends four hours to embroider a beautiful flower while another spends only four minutes to make a similar flower of lesser quali ty, they would give preference to the woman who did it in four minutes over the woman who did it in four hours. Thus , understanding the importance and instilling the habit of hard work in a person beautif ies the ir character. Y ou can also acquire other moral qualities by pondering over the commands of the Sharia h. Take two or three morals from th ere and make those your motto. Affix this motto in your rooms, your librar y books , your scho ol notebooks. You can make badges and then decide whether these badges should be displayed on the neck or on the sleeves of your shirt so that g radually t his become s a special c haracter istic of this college. If you follow this advice, you will accomplish a great deal. To summarize, you should revive your own past traditions and not follow other nations so much. Secondly, to make this type of ceremony more interesting, you should in clude students ’ mothers, so they become aware of the kind of life their girls are living at college. Third ly , select some moral characteristics to be your motto so that they become great traditions of your college. Then every student should try to adopt th is motto , so that those who observe them are given great distinction. ( Misbah , November 1955)