Questioner: In one of the Majalis-e-Irfan, Huzoor mentioned that the Islamic concept of state, according to what I understood, the Islamic concept of state does not belong to the realm of facts, but it merely sets an ideal before us which should regulate our conduct, that it is not meant to be achieved to this maximum capacity.
Huzoor: Did I say that?
Questioner: According to what I understood, yes.
Huzoor: Did I say that? No, I couldn’t have said it.
Questioner: Thank you.
Huzoor: But what I might have said would be that an ideal is set for people and no ideal can be perfectly achieved. That is a different thing altogether. But the ideal itself is perfect due to human shortcomings, due to human failings, an ideal is not achieved, but it does not mean that the ideal is unnecessary. Greater the ideal, greater would be the relevant effort of people to reach that ideal, that goal.
So higher the goal is set, unless it totally frustrates one and defeats his spirit, unless that happens, the higher the goal of an ideal is, the better it is for people, because they will have to rise higher, and for that purpose they have to put in greater effort. That is, I mean not in these words, but that is what I might have meant, but I may have you know conveyed vaguely, so that you got a wrong impression.
