The Ocean of Light — Page 109
109 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS be destroyed but because of prostitutes, meat, mutton and drunkenness. They pay no attention to their subjects and in resolving their disputes. It is due to the wretchedness of people these days, that prostitutes have grown in number and the tradition of veiling has declined. Hence, these prostitutes have become the bane of youngsters’ lives, for they have taken off the veil from their faces and removed all barriers from their speech. You will observe people drinking in their company openly, passing goblets around to each other like lovers. Sometimes these prostitutes, after having drunk too much, will pass out drunk in the middle of a bazaar and in thoroughfares, and then her lover will pick her up like a donkey and carry her across the market while bystanders laugh at him and reproach him. He, however, does not care about their reproaches, and passes through every alley with a strange and humiliated expression. He has drink in his gut and a young maiden on his back; he works like