Forty Gems of Beauty — Page 88
88 beggars in the end. It calls for an urgent remedy. The distant and near relations who assume the role of guardians to their orphaned kin, owe it to them to provide adequately for the education, high moral and cultural discipline of their wards and to take good care of their properties. The organisations that take up this service in their hands, that assume custody of this service, likewise, should act as the parents of the orphans, and instead of making them beg from door-to-door, take appropriate measures to train them as self-respecting and useful members of society. Above all, they should never have cause to feel in their hearts that they are helpless and forlorn dependents on the charity of others. The orphans, on the other hand, have little ground to despair. They should always remember that the greatest of mankind, the chief of the two worlds and the pride of prophets (May peace and blessings of Allah be on him) was himself an orphan who had lost his father before his birth, and his mother departed from this world when he was hardly seven years old. If they take to the path of virtue, God will not let them down. Who can give greater protection than God?