Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 486
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 486 1 ْمُهْنِمَف ٌمِلاَظ ٖهِسْفَنِّل١ۚ َو ْمُهْنِم ٌدِصَتْقُّم١ۚ َو ْمُهْنِم ٌۢقِباَس ِتٰرْيَخْلاِب ْمُهْنِمَف ٌمِلاَظ ٖهِسْفَنِّل١ۚ َو ْمُهْنِم ٌدِصَتْقُّم١ۚ َو ْمُهْنِم ٌۢقِباَس ِتٰرْيَخْلاِب I call people of all these three grades to be Muslims, but what am I to designate those who declare a believer to be a kafir ? I would consider those who do not call me kafir to be included with them until they declare their disassociation from them through a published announcement. They should also mention the names of those that issue these fatwas and say that accord- ing to a sahih hadith [authentic saying of the Holy Prophet s as ], they consider them to be kafirs. Women’s Education Then the second person asked, ‘What are your views about the educa- tion of women?’ The Promised Messiah as said: There is a hadith that 2 ٍ ُل ِّ مُسْلِم ٍ وَّمُسْلِمَۃ ك طَلَب ُ الْعِلْم ِ فَرِیْضَۃ ٌ عَلٰی [‘It is the duty of every Muslim man and woman to seek knowledge’]. I would first talk about men. It is very dangerous to occupy one- self with secular learning before becoming aware of the essence of Islam and its beauties. If young children are only educated in a school and are not informed of religion at all, those values will get absorbed into them like mother’s milk gets absorbed into their bodies. What would be the outcome of this except that they would renounce Islam? Very few would become Christians as belief in the Trinity, Atonement, and Divinity of a human being are so absurd that no wise or intelligent person 1. Of them are some who are breaking down their own selves by suppressing their desires , and of them are some who keep to the right course, and of them are some who excel others in acts of goodness ( Surah F at ir, 35:33). [Publisher] 2. Sunan Ibn M a jah, Kit a bul-Muqqadimah, Hadith 224 [Publisher]