The Ocean of Light — Page 51
51 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS diseases. The majority of people are now in the habit of remaining engrossed in frivolities, while their egotism has made them habitual show-offs. The education of their children has led to results contrary to their expectations and has dried up faith and morality. [Their] Astrology has changed the very features of the incidents, while physics has ruined their dispositions. They have taken on the traits of heresy as if it was their inheritance and forgotten about God and His Grandeur and Majesty. They have made physical means their god and consider that to be what comes to their aid. They ridicule the believers and consider them to be ignorant and lacking in intellect, like women 1. They have come under the influence of philosophers like the dead enter the graves. Except for 1 Religious men at that time were considered uneducated and ignorant in secular terms in much the same way as the women of that age who had also not gained any formal secular education; as such it is not a comment targeted at women per say, but rather a description of the prevailing attitudes of the time. [Publisher]