Real Revolution — Page 181
181 speak of many example have their due share in our properties. I should not be understood to imply that this is not being done even in individual cases. Not to other instances, we ourselves, for given their share to our mother and sisters in the property left by the Promised Messiah. But in the majority of cases members of the Movement generally fail to act upon this part of the Shariah. . There is absolutely no difficulty in our way if we really desire to act upon it, except this that a long established custom among us is to the contrary. But did not all Muslims in the past act upon it without feeling any ill effects? And is it not a matter of great shame for us that in the United. Provinces even non-Ahmadis act upon this teaching and similarly in the Noth Western Frontier. Province also the Muslims have obtained a law which entitles them to divide their property : among their heirs in accordance with + dictates of the Shariah, while there are Ahmad who do not give their due share to wives, sisters and daughters. The zamindars (landowners) are afraid, I presume, that if they give a share to daughters in their property, then parts of it would pass into the hand of other families. But if the whole community begins to observe this teaching, even this difficulty would be minimised, for just as their property in some cases would pass out of their hands, portions of the properties of other