The Devotion of Life — Page 264
264 than a hundred, Missionaries should be trained. So one 'Tehrik' I make is that friends should send their children to Madrassah Ahmadiyya so that they may be prepared for service to the faith. ” Scheme for Education Huzur ra further stated, “The second 'Tehrik' I make to the Anjuman is that the Scheme for Education should be such that maximum religious knowledge is attained in the minimum of time. Any impediment in this realisation should be removed. It is not essential to gain ‘Maulvi Fazal’ ; whoever wishes to obtain a degree may do so from outside. It is important to remove this pretence of duality. One who has his feet in two boats at the same time can never reach the shore. So, we should be organised in such a way that we have fully fledged religious scholars as quickly as possible. They should attain skill in Religious Jurisprudence, Commentary of the Holy Qur’an, Hadith , Mysticism and other such disciplines to a degree that they are counted among the greatest religious scholars; rather, they should be the only ones considered as religious scholars in the world. That recognition should come from all in spite of the differences in belief. People of each sect and each country in Islam should acknowledge that if true knowledge is to be attained, it ought to be sought from Ahmadi scholars. ”