Sermons on Waqf-e-Nau — Page 55
Waaqifeen children. They should be taught amiable manners. One aspect of good morals is related to high moral qualities and I have spoken about it several times. The other aspect of good morals, generally known as affability, is the ability by which one makes more friends and few enemies. An ill-tempered person cannot be a good Waaqif. A bad-tempered person can be called a Mulla (pedagogue) but he cannot be a good spiritual man. Once I received complaints that a certain Waaqif-e-zindaghee was surly and rude to people. When I drew his attention to it he said; "They are lying. There is nothing wrong with me. I am following the right path. They have certain faults. When I bring these faults to their attention they get upset". I said to him that Hadhrat Muhammad saw was the one who paid the greatest attention to human faults. There was an enormous disparity between him saw and the people of his saw time, while the disparity between him and the Ahmadi youth did not equal even a one thousandth of a percent. Besides Hadhrat Muhammad saw was an im- maculately innocent person while he himself had some faults. The people that Hadhrat Muhammad saw was ad- dressing had vices of all kinds while the young men he was dealing with were well-mannered, polished and a hundred times better than any young men outside the Jama'at. What was the reason that they got offended when he advised them to mend their ways whereas people fell in love with Hadhrat Muhammad saw when he told them to cast off their evil ways? I told him that it was not unusual to get complaints about a missionary once in a while. A man who has been assigned to do a job cannot please all and some people are likely to get offended. But when there is a flux of complaints about one person then this couplet by (Urdu poet) Ghalib is true about him: 55