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Fazle Umar 245 in other institutions tend to strengthen such objections the aim of our Professors would be that they should refute such objections effectively. ” E d U C AT IO n OF wOM E n During the Annual Conference of 1944, in addressing the women, on 27 Decem- ber, the Khalifatul Masih admonished the members of the newly established Associa- tion of Women that their first duty should be to establish literacy among all the women of the Movement. Their second step should be to take adequate measures to instruct all the women of the Movement in the principal commandments of Islam relating to the Salat, and fasting, etc. The third step should be that every woman should know the purport and meaning of the Salat, so that her worship should not be like the cry of a parrot, not knowing what she is saying. The last step should be that every woman should know the meaning of the Holy Qur’an. He stated: “I would be satisfied only when everyone of you knows the meaning of the Holy Qur’an, and I would be happy when every one of you not only knows the mean- ing of the Qur’an, but also understands the Qur’an, and I will be truly happy when everyone of you can expound the Holy Qur’an to other women, and my happiness would be even greater when God Almighty becomes a witness that all of you have understood the Holy Qur’an and are diligent in acting upon it. ”