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134 because these are liked in society, such as tight and above knee length coats, then it is useless. They promote immodesty and reveal your bodies. Thus, this is slackness of faith and deficiency in love of Allah the Almighty. Allah wants to reward His people tenfold or even greater for every virtue one does. And we are depriving ourselves of this reward by not complying with His commandments due to fear or love of the world. If this is the situation, then it is a lost bargain. If we analyze, we come to conclude that it is certainly man himself who defies the injunctions of Allah the Almighty and thus deprives himself from the rewards which God Almighty desires to bless him with. All of this is happening under the influence of the western mindset. ” (Address to Ladies, Jalsa Salana Germany, August 15, 2009, Al-Fazl International, May 2, 2014) Women Should Act with Courage Rather Than Have An Inferiority Complex While addressing Ahmadi women, Huzoor Anwar atba advised them to shun their inferiority complex and act upon the Islamic commandments with courage. He stated: “Now here, the excuses are being fabricated that it is very difficult to observe Purda in Europe. This is absolutely wrong. I think this is a sort of complex which men also have, along with women. You are trying to look for excuses to abandon your own teachings and please society instead of Allah the Exalted. Even in this society there are hundreds and thousands of those who observe Purda and they are looked upon with greater dignity and respect as compared to those who do not observe Purda. The societal evils