Real Revolution — Page 180
180 operation, and we fail to enforce them, it would only mean that willfully and deliberately we were ignoring the Shariah, and insulting it thereby. We must now take some practical steps towards the attainment of this objective, to the extent it is open to us to do so, and we must not allow ourselves to be pulled back from this course by any though. of some weak members stumbling in the matter. . First step to extend right of inheritance to women. . The first step in this connection should be reformation in those matters where the defects stand very evident and obvious; and today I wish to draw your attention to one of these-a matter in which there is no obstacle in our way, if we really are determined to make a move, except lack of real gious zeal, or ignorance, or negligence on the part of most of us. Otherwise there is no reason why we should not resolve today that in future this fault shall not occur among us. The thing I am referring to is a national sin that is being committed all over the country, even among us, namely, that the right of inheritance, as stipulated by the Shatiah, is not being extended to women, particularly among the landowning classes. It is now fifty years since the Ahmadiyya Movement was started, but so tar we have not begun to give our daughters