Hijab — Page 73
73 Islam is not such a religion that confines people with inappropriate restrictions, instead, its teachings are flexible depending on one’s needs. As I have said earlier, there are some female patients who need the services of male doctors, so, there is no restriction of Purda for the doctors as well as the patients. Saving a human life and relieving it from pain is the real and foremost aim. That is why eating carrion and even pork is permissible, in order to save lives, in times of extreme distress and helplessness. But again, only in case life is at risk. Similarly, alcohol is also put to use in medicines. But in short, the system that the satanic forces want us to follow aims at gradually putting an end to the limitations of faith and destroying religion. Now we, the Ahmadis, have to do Jihad against this scheme, and this will be possible only when we give preference to Islamic teachings over everything else and prostrate before Allah the Exalted, so that we have success through Divine help. In the time of the Promised Messiah as , there is no Jihad (holy war) of the sword, instead it is the Jihad of self-reformation. Muslims living in these developed countries, particularly the Ahmadi Muslims living all over the world are my addressees for this. They must strive to be loyal to the country, make sacrifices for it and try to attain an elevated status in any form for the sake of the development of the country. When this is accomplished, the satanic forces will be rendered speechless. They will realize that Muslims are those who are leading their countries and the nation towards high standards of betterment, rather than working against the country. We have to make these people and governments comprehend that if we abide by certain norms or refrain from certain activities or things because of our religious teachings, it is not the government’s task or the judiciary to interfere. This will create unrest and distance between the locals and the immigrants, although some of those who are called migrants have been living in these countries for two or three generations. Yes, if someone is harming the country, being unfaithful or spreading rumours and hatred, the government has