Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 49
50 any case; for instance, when it comes to learning, all minds are equal in intelligence. Brilliant and genius brains and dull and dunces both are found among every people. They all enjoy their respective capabilities. This is unlikely that all the individuals of one Nation happen to be dull in learning while all individuals of another nation happen to be genius. It is true that even donkeys of the ruling nations are raised to a high position. For instance, there was a fellow student of mine at Oxford. He did not turn up for the second term. The system there is that whoever cannot cope with the syllabus they do not waste his money. When a term ends and a student goes home, they send him a letter after the result not to turn up for the next term. In English it is called 'sent home'. I was not aware of this system then. When he [the fellow student] did not come back I enquired about him from other fellow students and thought deaths and accidents do occur, God knows what stopped him. A student told me that he had been ‘sent home’. When I went to Delhi in 1944, I happened to eye a face at the railway platform and recognized instantly that he was the very person who had been 'sent home'. He was then [in 1944] a high officer in the British government. Both of us recognized each other and greeted one another. I said to myself, since they have sovereignty over our country, in the idiom of our country, they appoint even their asses as officers over us. In short, there are brilliant and dull brains both among every people, and there is no exception to this rule. Neither all brains of a