Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 504
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 504 being based on fact or fiction, since these people present their personal experience and daily observation, it has a far greater and negative impact. In short, the truth is verily that internal assaults are far more advanced than external assaults and they have a dangerous and poisonous effect. It is true that, as they say, ‘What comes from within us has a greater impact upon us. ’ In reality, the fault lies with the Muslims themselves who sent their naïve children to these schools and colleges without educating them about the essential teachings of the Quran and Islam. I acknowledge that seeking knowledge is incumbent upon every man and woman as is evident from the hadith: 1 ُل ِّ مُسْلِم ٍ وَّمُسْلِمَۃٍ. ك طَلَب ُ الْعِلْم ِ فَرِیْضَۃ ٌ عَلٰی ُل ِّ مُسْلِم ٍ وَّمُسْلِمَۃٍ. ك طَلَب ُ الْعِلْم ِ فَرِیْضَۃ ٌ عَلٰی [‘It is the duty of every Muslim man and woman to seek knowledge’], but first and foremost, is the acquisition of religious knowledge. Once children have become fully acquainted with religious knowledge and become fully aware of the essence and light of Islam, then there is no harm in teaching them the contempo- rary sciences. The present attitude of these Muslims is very dan- gerous indeed. Look, if a woman is first made a prostitute and then asked to repent—what kind of a repentance would that be? Once drink- ing, prostitution, and living an unscrupulous life have become her second nature, it would be difficult for her to repent in the first place, and even if she does repent, what sort of a repentance would it be? Everyone can imagine. This very situation is the case of those boys who are made to develop doubts about the very existence of God by first instructing them in the poisonous 1. Sunan Ibn M a jah, Kit a bul-Muqqadimah, Hadith 224 [Publisher]