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Fazle Umar 348 scheme, they can watch over each other and they can also get work experience. Then the biggest advantage will be that in this way, from a tender age, the training of the children will be along the lines of Islamic teachings, which will come in handy when they are older. Apart from this, as everyone who is a part of these organisations has to take on some responsibility, they will show their potential in some form or other. Hence, this is such an important task that if no attention is given to it, the Community will never prosper as a group and we will never be successful in the field of training. ” (Report Majlis Mashawarat, 1941, pg. 121–22). “If on the one hand the departments that manage the Organisation keep the people vigilant and on the other hand the Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, Ansarullah and Lajna Imaillah that manage the members, can keep the Organisation alert, there is no reason that the Community should completely decline at any time or stop advancing. Whenever one becomes negligent the other will be ready to activate it. Whenever one becomes lazy the other will come forward to make it productive because they are both representatives of the same part. One represents the Organisation and the other represents the members. ” (Al-Fazl, 17 Nov. 1943). “…Remember it is the law of God which can never be changed that one part sleeps while the other is awake, one department becomes slothful while the other becomes industrious. God Almighty has decreed this to be a part of His law by making the world round so that one half should sleep while the other is awake…This is the working relationship between the Organisation and its members observed in the world, which in fact is the relationship between free will and determinism. Sometimes the members are asleep and the Organisation is active and vice versa. Sometimes it also happens that both the Organisation and the members are active and that is always a period of great victories and