Real Revolution — Page 192
192 some momentary impulse, under a special stimu lus it is always the living up to a pledge that counts, and that is rather difficult. If it had been an easy thing, you would have made a start with it long ago, since the teaching is not new. You have been aware of it all along, but still you failed to observe it. To take a vow under the impulse of an emotional appeal is very easy: even weak minded people also are swept into it. But when the time for appropriate action comes, they begin to take shelter behind untenable, flimsy excuses, and try to throw the blame for their failure upon this or that official of the Movement connected with the matter. I realise that a number of new mischiefs might spring up, in the wake of this new effort, from the side of the actual or potential defaulters, trying to throw the blame on the organisation of the Community. . Indeed we already have some experience of the kind. When action is taken against some people in Qadian, they begin to raise a hue and cry. Instead of saying that they have been severely dealt with because they had been dishonouring the Shariah, and bringing Islam into disrepute by their actions, they start a propaganda that such and such office bearer of the Community had some personal grudge against them, the action taken against them being due to that fact alone, and to nothing else.