Khalifatul-Masih III - Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad — Page 59
Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad 59 in the improvement of this standard. Huzoor rta did not accept any separation of religious and worldly knowledge and used to say that every kind of worldly knowledge, unless it leads one astray, is in fact religious knowledge. The Muslims of earlier times acquired worldly knowledge as a part of their religious learning and by attaining perfection in these doctrines, served mankind abundantly. When Dr Abdus Salam, an Ahmadi scientist, won the Nobel Prize in 1979, Huzoor rta announced an academic plan for the Community and declared it to be an important part of the Ahmadiyya Centenary Jubilee Plan. Huzoor rta directed the Community to provide each child with the highest level of education according to an individual’s mental capacity. He said that the intellect of any bright child of the Community, whether in Moscow or New York, whether inside or outside Pakistan, should not be allowed to go to waste—scholarships worth 125,000 rupees would be given each year by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to intelligent students. This was not to be a reward but rather the right of such students. Huzoor rta appointed Dr Abdus Salam as president of this committee. It was his belief that Islam cannot be propagated until the enemies are defeated in the field of education. Huzoor rta said, “This desire has emerged in my heart that in the hundred years after the next ten, which I deem as the century of the domination of