Real Revolution — Page 108
struggle on the basis of their strength, but that the. Muslims should become unmindful of their Lord and. Allah withdraw His succour from them. Here a natural question rises in the mind: why did the Unbelievers fall a prey to despair? The Holy Quran men tions two factors which produced this mental state among the Unbelievers. (i) The religion was made complete and perfect, this completion and perfection also including establishment of the teaching in practice to mould the daily life of its followers, sincewithout having been tested in the actual field of the daily needs of human life no philosophy can rightfully claim to have proved itself. For instance, all medical students study books on surgery, but all do not become good surgeons unless they strengthen this study with practical work, first in the disection rooms and then in the operation theatres. . Bearing on this point there is an anecdote connected with Maharajah Ranjit Singh who ruled over the Punjab before the country fell to the. British. Once a physician from Delhi presented himself at his court who had a great deal of the theoretical knowledge of medicine, but who rather lacked the experience that comes only with practice. . At the Maharajah's court there was a Muslim Minister who was also a physician, this qualification having been, in tact, what had commended and preserved that minister in his position in that turbulent era.