Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 104
104 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH religion. He always ridiculed the commands of God and His Messenger. Once he fell ill and came to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra for treatment. During the talk, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra asked, “Mirza Sahib, do you ever feel envious of the people who come to your neighbourhood for S al a t five times a day? Did it ever cross your mind that you should also perform S al a t ?” On hearing this, he burst into laughter and said, “Maulaw i Sahib I have been right-minded since my childhood. Even in those days whenever I saw people bowing their heads down and lifting their hips up, I would laugh at their foolishness. ” Now consider, when mothers start producing such “right-minded” children, can the paradise prepared with the sermons of preachers last even for a day? Or take any issue—literary, religious, political, or economic; unless you ensure the participation of woman in it, she will keep your children completely ignorant of these issues, and your knowledge will end with you. In short, Allah, the Almighty has said in these verses that it is a universal truth that man cannot get an eternal paradise without woman. Those who have called Islamic paradise a brothel have only exposed the evil in their own natures. Alluding towards paradise, Allah, the Almighty says in the Holy Quran: (Al-Ra h m a n, 55:47)