Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 444
444' you- forgot the very names of Bukhari of Darwin, Huxley and 1 James were every; moment on -ybur Hjps. You may 'say -. that this -was due to -the English education being defective. But I say this was rather due -to the>unwbrthiness: of your <owri motives. y lf you had cherished love- for God and lot His Holy Messenger, if you had yourselves: understood Islam, : ! would ybu not haye dtine sometihingJto prevent -the light of; faith m the rninds of your children ;frorn being- extinguished ? If you had turned 'even a little 'attention to this matter, could darkness hay;e -stood' before' light ? Gome, I 'may show you r Abmady children -who attend the same Colleges as your chil'dren do, -read with thie s r ame professors, study the: same- books; and :appear in the. 'Samfe examihation8,'but their hearts are full of the light of faith!. - They believe in the Holy Qdran not because their o fathers beMeved in ^it, but because they have themselves read it and have -found it -tp be true. They do 'not look upon- it :as something^ to ; sWear by, but -as the door: through which one may find access to God. They dp not keep it shut, they read it intelligently; They are in} -the -'hdbit of saying prayers, and observing fasts. - They r do:not deny 'the efficacy of prayers, but look upon it as the prop- of lif e :. . ; In short; Islam is the rule of their lives, love; of Gbd ; is the soul of their bbdres, His rernernbTance their food, and ev;ery word of the Brophet is 'dear to their hearts. Sb the condition 6f your children is n;0t really due to any defect' in the" colleges, 1 or the courses of study or 'the universities, this is 'the outcome of your, own negl'i-. gence and carelessness. '. / "'; T'o revert to the subject proper. 1- admit that you tendered active military service, ;fought bravely,: kilj'ed this Turks and dyed the battfe field with their ;blbod; 'But did you" do" so for Clod's sake ? Did you do this because it was God's cbrLmand to '* Naines of the two most euthen tic 'collections of thV sayings' of the Holy Prophet/