THE CALL

2. HAZRATJI ~ 65 ~ emphasis on impressing upon the minds of the people the importance of understanding the area of their struggle. There are some who consider agriculture, business and science as being the area in which to exert the utmost. There are others who depend upon elections to bring pressure to bear upon the government for the realization of their collective aims and goals. The Maulana maintained that these material matters could be likened to bulbs and fans. Even if we direct all our efforts towards bulbs and fans, we cannot make them function; we have to operate the switch which activates them. Similarly it is contact with God alone which can bring our efforts to fruition in every field. Without this our best efforts are in vain. METHOD OF WORKING The Maulana’s method of working for this goal was very simple. It was to revive the activities of the mosques on the pattern of the early days of Islam. Movement and travel were greatly emphasized, as a means to make people truly religious. People were to be withdrawn for a time from their daily chores