Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 166
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 166 29 November 1905 (Before Z uhr) The Purpose of Starting the Madrasah The Promised Messiah as said: My aim in starting the Madrasah is only to prioritize faith over worldly concerns. Including traditional education will permit these sciences to serve the Faith. I do not desire that after passing F. A or B. A, the students should run around somehow looking to find worldly employment and gain. The objective I have in my mind is that such people live their lives to serve the Faith. I consider the Madrasah essential for this very rea- son so that it may perhaps be of service to the Faith. The diffi- culty is that anyone who develops the slightest ability becomes inclined toward the world. I want such people to come into being who work like Maulaw i Muhammad ‘Ali. Life is tran- sient. He is currently on his own. I see no one to help him or who can act in his stead. I see the state of the Aryas being such that, on the one hand, they make each and every particle into God and thus render themselves deprived of the cognizance of Allah the Exalted and fail to understand the duties [man owes to Him]. Moreover, they are so blind to the rights of human beings that they believe in such a thing as Niyog. 1 Despite having such a religion, they are so zealous to support it that many educated people devote their lives for the sake of their faith. 1. This Arya doctrine permits a man to allow his wife to cohabit with another man to conceive a child. [Publisher]