A Letter to a Dear One — Page 10
10 Letter to a Dear One ‚√äÆöZ „øäÆöZ IFZ ‚±ÖI ‚†ÆºöZ ‰ö¬çf Áæì Áæ≥ú z y¨ø©ú Shimla May 16, 1939 My Dearest One, Assal ā mu ‘alaikum wa rahmatull ā hi wa barak ā tuh ū When we have left this world, our responsibilities will be placed on your shoulders and those of the dear ones even younger than you. Judging by the misery in this world and the speed with which it is spreading, I can guess that your responsibilities will be much greater than ours. If you discharge your duties well, our souls will be pleased and the future generations will consider you august. You will be famous and your name will live forever. Most of all, you will be accepted by Allah and will be blessed with His mercy. We have certain obligations towards you, just as part of your future responsibilities will be regarding the generations to come after you. I wish to be relieved of some of my responsibility through this writing. Wa m ā tauf ī qi ill ā bill ā hil-‘aliyyil-‘az ī m. A Delicate Point in Life Right now you are going through a most sensitive phase of your life. All of us have been through such a phase in our own circumstances. While going through this phase we were aware of our difficulties. If a helping hand had been extended to us at that time we would have been overwhelmed with gratitude and the aspects of life, which seemed dark and horrific at that time, would have been made bright and pleasant. However, once we had passed through these stages we disregarded all the associated difficulties. Now that the same time is approaching for the next generation, no attention is being paid towards it’s difficult aspects by us, and there has been no sympathy and no helping hand extended. Today I shall begin to try to set this inadequacy right. I do not know whether I will succeed in my effort. However, I will have tried to the