Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume II — Page 198
198 can achieve with courage as well. So , if women realize their obligations and become steadfast in their beliefs, nobody will dare to harm Ahmadiyyat. Consider even this scenario , that if the wives of today’s hypocrites had shown th e example of the women of the Holy Prophet ’s sa time, then how could their men have ever mustere d the nerve to be hypocrit ic al? Once the Holy Prophet sa went out [of the city] for a battle. One c ompanion ra was out of M edina at the time as the Holy Prophet sa had sent him away on some errand. When he returned, he found out that the Holy Prophet sa had departed for battle with his c ompanions ra. He had been away for quite a long time. He loved his wife very much, who was young and beautiful. He thought he would go home and embrace her. He went home and she was busy doing some chore s. He came near her to touch her , but upon seeing him, she pushed him away and said, ‘ Are you not ashamed of yourself ? The Prophet of God has put his life on the line and has gone to fight the Roman g overnment and you are thinking about your wife and being affectionate. ’ His wife’s words hit directly at the c ompanion ra. He got on his horse right then and headed in the direction of the Muslim f orces and reached the Holy Prophet sa. If the wives of these [present day] hypocrites had also shown such dedication, th en th eir men would never have dared to show such hypocrisy. The b rother - in - law of a hypocrite came to visit here. I told him to meet Mian Bashir Ahmad ra and ask him how many different ways we have tried to make these people understand [so they can correct their ways]. So , he went to Mian Bashir Ahmad ra who explained everything to him in great detail. He later said, ‘I went to my sister. I told her, ‘When our father died, we could not save him. So, if your husband does not repent and does not apologize, we will consider you dead as well. B ut if you break all relations with your husband , then my home is your home. If you come and stay with me, I will support you r every burden, b ut if you do not leave him and you choose to stay with him , then I will break all ties with you. ’ ’ So, there are also such people who break ties with their relatives for the sake of their religion , b ut there are also those women who have joined their husbands in hypocrisy. In fact, they think that if their husbands advance in hypocrisy, it might give them some benefit.