Real Revolution — Page 150
150 organisation in support of a view of life established on a corporate basis in the life of the people. . Nor, for the following reasons, can individual effort succeed in bringing such a system and order into being: 1. Most people are not adequately enlightened in regard to the inner meaning of the teaching and its profound bearing upon life. Their individual effort to spread this teaching and to establish it on a firm basis remains therefore incomplete, since it lacks adequate vigour. 2. Even among those people who have a due understanding of these things, a part remains lazy. The activity of this part remains mostly dependent on persuasion and pressure of environment, the corporate body having in many cases to issue notices to them that they should brush themselves up, or drop out of the Movement. 3. Violation or non-observance of the Shariah, on the part of those who might do so from ignorance or laziness, produces a bad effect on the others. Some people, through ignorance, even begin to mistake such instances of the violation or non-observance of the Shariah to involve no infiringements at all. Suppose, for instance there is a great and successful businessman who shows slackness in the observance of some point of the. Shariah. Many people would take to copying him, thinking that perhaps what he failed to observe was not part of the Shariah at all. The spirit of