خطبات طاہر (جلد 1۔ 1982ء) — Page 425
Khutbat-e-Tahir Vol 1 425 October 8, 1982 fault of the schooling he has had۔But there are so many factors involved that it is not for me to analyse them all here۔But one thing I know, that some one with what ever he has, if he has offered his life for the sake of Allah, he should be treated respectfully and kindly, and cooperation should be extended to him in all departments۔Some times I know, not here, but it may happen every where in the world, that some people show kindness to a missionary and then they think that by doing so, they have turned him into a personal slave۔Now this is the common tragedy we find in the rest of the Islamic world vis-à-vis their mulla which we find serving in the mosques, in the villages particularly in the Punjab۔There the mulla is supposed to be a personal servant of all the big land lords of that community, because he is being fed by them۔In what manner of feeding, there is no point to discuss it, but, because he is ultimately kept alive at their alms, there he is mistreated; he is insulted in every day life۔The only hold he has over such a society is by way of creating hatred۔Whenever he speaks of hatred for others, people follow him, when ever he speaks of goodness and sacrifices for the sake of goodness, people desert him۔That is the only relationship left now۔We must not make it happen to our community۔We have to go a very very long way towards the final achievement of our goal۔And the kind of missionaries which has been created with the grace of Allah through Hadrat