Proceedings of the Prayer Meeting — Page 20
20 prices so that everyone can afford to keep certain medicines at home and take them when needed. By establishing large colleges, medical education has been abundantly disseminated to the extent that doctors are found even in the rural areas. To prevent certain dangerous diseases like smallpox, cholera, plague, etc. —especially with regard to the plague—all of the recently taken measures by the Government command our deepest gratitude. To summarize, the Government has extended every kind of required assistance with respect to health, and has thereby provided great support toward fulfilling the first and foremost requirement of worship. Second prerequisite is Faith— If one loses faith in God Almighty and His commandments and is eaten away from within by faithlessness and impiety, one is unable to carry out divine injunctions. This is why so many people are fond of saying, ا�ی�ہہ گج اھٹم ےت االگ نک ڈاھٹ [‘Delightful indeed is this world; who has seen the next?’] It is a pity that a criminal can get hanged upon the testimony of two people, yet—despite the collective testimony of one hun- dred and twenty-four thousand Messengers and countless auli- yaa [friends of Allah]—this kind of impiety has still not departed from the hearts of people. In every age, through His mighty Signs and miracles, God Almighty proclaims: املوجود ن أ� [‘I am present’], yet these wretches, having ears, hear not. In short, this stipulation is also a vital condition. For this, too, we ought to be grateful to the British Government, because the strengthening of faith and belief requires general religious education which in turn depends upon the publication of religious books. All kinds of religious