Real Revolution — Page 109
109. The new comer requested this minister to recom. mend him to the Maharajah, which the minister in the goodness of his heart could not very well refuse. . But presenting the new comer before the Maharajah, he said that the guest was an eminent scholar from. Delhi where, as far as the science of medicine was concerned, he had thoroughly mastered it. As for practice, if the Maharajah extended his patronage to him, he would have excellent opportunities to shine. . The Maharajah, who was a remarkably shrewd man, at once divined the inner meaning of his minister and said that since he had come from a place famous for learning, he should be given proper honour and rupees ten thousand paid to him, after which it should be suggested to him that to get proper practice of what he had read he should choose some people other than poor Maharajah Ranjit Singh. . This is only a humerous kind of anecdote which may or may not be true. But it shows very graphically that no knowledge in theory is of any use until it has been tested in practice, knowledge of the shariah being no exception to this rule. . Completion of religion therefore means that the teaching should come down in detail, and should also come to be established in practice. (ii) The second factor which contributed to the despair of the Unbelievers was that Allah's favour, too, was completed. Completion of favour means that both