Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 14
14 committees, they support the selection of such books. In short, these colleges and universities have given the world hybrid men who are neither true philoso- phers, nor completely ignorant. They are people who look to Islam with an eye of contempt in the academic sense, and often practically as well; people who like the unrestrained and audacious consider the Religion of Truth and its laws to be of no use. Most of these people are completely irreligious and free from divine law. When a certain irreligious man, who was also an M. A. , was told to abstain from indecency and adopt a course of marriage, he declared like the libertines of France that marriage is nothing but an unnecessary restriction; man is free to do as he wills, like a dog. Therefore, the colleges and universities have infected the world with a terrible plague. These sons of secular education who are leading members of society raise slogans of materialism, and organise committees and conferences for worldly objectives alone, they strive and move forward to attain the world, and it is for this purpose that they spend their wealth. If religion is men- tioned to them, they become angered and infuriated. Their philosophy, metaphysics and science constitute the root of all disorders. In the present age, there is a need for a reformer who would firmly establish true knowledge in the place of these false sciences. Thirdly, court cases and legal pursuits have massacred