Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 182
182 surroundings. It is a cause for concern that there is a gradual increase in the number of people who wish to escape their responsibilities and their sphere of supervision or they shut their eyes to it! They try and spend their life engrossed in their own world. A true believer, an Ahmadi should not be even remotely associated with this. The commandment for a true believer is that let alone worldly routine , it is wrong even if his religious routine, whereby due to his regular activities and worship of God he does not have any idea of what is going on in his surroundings, does not fulfil the r ights of his wife and children, the rights of his friends and does not fulfil the rights of society. High levels of righteousness cannot be attained in this manner, on the contrary, in order to attain these levels, the rights of Allah the Exalted should be fulfilled as well as the rights of people! Just as it is cited in a Tradition; Hazrat Abdullah bin Am r bin Aas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) addressed him and said: ‘O 'Abdullah! Is that which I have been informed correct that you fast all day and stand in Prayer all night?’ I said, ‘yes, O Messenger of Allah. ’ He said, ‘do not do that! Sometimes observe the fast and at other times do not fast; stand up for Prayer at night and also s leep at night. Because your body has a right