Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 324
! ! 324 Address to the L adies at the Jalsa Salana Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Bashir - ud - D in Mahmud Ahmad Khalifat - ul - Masih II ra 1932 After reciting Tashahhud and Surah Al - Fatihah , Haz rat Khalifa t - ul - Masih II ra said: Just as nerves and arter ies work together, t he world is also organized and runs with the cooperation between men and women. However nowadays , a war rages a ll around and discord is on the rise. There is a prophecy which says that , near the Day of Judgment , all blessings will be effaced. T he beasts i. e. , the illiterate and lowly nations will be mixed together , their status will be raised , and all huma ns will desire equality. It is for this reason that this section of the human race, women, came to the realization that they should seek equality. Therefore , women began to take part in war and conflict. There is a saying in our country that a cantaloupe, upon seeing a nother cantaloupe, takes on its color. T his is also expressed as ‘ jumping on the bandwagon. ’ T his quality and behavior is found in every country, but it is more rampant in our nation. Once a jackal was running and someone asked him where he was going. He replied that the K ing had ordered that all the camels in the city be captured. T he person replied that the order was for camels , whereas you are a jackal. He replied that perhaps jackals could also be caught. In exactly the same manner, the women of our nation are imitating Hindu and Christian ladies and demanding their rights. Yet, who are men to g rant women the rights , which God has already accorded them? The way in which the Holy Qur’ān has defined a Muslim woman, it cannot be found in any other religious book or religion. Christianity teaches that women do not possess a soul. In other religions , women are described as the organ of the Devil or as the root