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the dirt of objections from the glittering jewels. God is very jealous of it; He wishes that the honour of the Holy Quran must be made pure and sacred by removing -every objection that the dirty minded people have slung on it. (Malfoozat Vol. 1, p. 57) WORLDLY SCIENCES It is very essential that in order to serve religion you should acquire the knowledge of the worldly sciences as well-the latest ones, for that matter. And you should struggle for this purpose. At the same time, I should like to give a warning-and it is based on my personal experience-those who have striven to acquire one sided knowledge and that they do not have time and mind to spend some time with the spiritual people-nor do they have any light of spirituality in themselves-they have stumbled and gone far away from -Islam. Instead of making these sciences sub-servient to Islam, they have tried in vain to make Islam subservient to these sciences and they have started feeling that they are the people responsible for the fulfihnent of the needs of the religion. But you should remember that the religion can be served only by such people as have divine light in them. The truth is that these sciences ar. e being taught like the life of the Padres and in-the form of a philosophy. The result is that the one who tries to acquire these sciences, remains a devout Muslim for a short while-because of the good impression that he had about this religion-but later on he starts moving away from it. Then a time comes when he abandons all the rituals of Islam and gets himself cut off from it. Some of them who have acquired these sciences have become leaders of the nation but they do not understand the 13