The Devotion of Life — Page 174
174 Many Muslim sects and Governments in the world have opened ‘Madrassahs’ for the teaching of faith. They have a lot of funds at their disposal. They have a lot of facilities which cannot be provide by Jama’at Ahmadiyya here or anywhere else where there are Jami’a Ahmadiyyas, due to our resources. There is no doubt that wherever faith education is provided, they have sufficient knowledge. All the knowledge that was there before the advent of the Promised Messiah as , the knowledge of Commentary (of the Holy Quran), Ahadith (Tradition), jurisprudence, they have it all. There is a ‘Madrassah’ established in India by the name of ‘Darul Uloom Deoband’ which has produced great scholars. Then there is Al-Azhar University. That is also considered a great centre of Faith Education. However, all these Institutions, their scholars and their graduates, despite the fact that they all are receiving faith education, remain ignorant and unfortunate in the respect that they were not able to recognise the Imam of this age. They were not able to attain the understanding and perception of the directive of the Holy Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Instead of knowledge enlightening their hearts and minds and creating humility within them, this knowledge has created arrogance in them and due to it not only have they not recognised the Imam of this age, but also a majority of them use filthy language against the Promised Messiah as and consider themselves to be much higher in knowledge. They refuse to accept the mediator and justice of this age, the spiritual son of the Holy Prophet (Peace and