Points to Ponder

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Points to Ponder — Page 51

— 51 Hearing this, the other person lying next to the first one, said, “Dear policeman, come on, why are you so upset over this? This person is like that, and is useless, and cannot be corrected. He is so lazy that all night a dog licked my face and he did not even hush the dog away. ” In this example, a picture of idleness in our country (that is, the Indian subcontinent) has been presented. There is no doubt that such people are found in every country but more so here, and the ones who are active, they also are comparatively lazy. I have mentioned many times that the laborers here who pick and move bricks around, they handle them like they are eggs. They pick them up very slowly. They relax while picking them up and relax again while putting them down. After every little while they say, “Let us take a break for a few puffs off the water-pipe 5. ” 5 hookah