Advice for Missionaries — Page 33
33 ger from among themselves, who may recite to them Thy Signs and teach them the Book and Wisdom and may purify them; surely, Thou art the Mighty, the Wise. This prayer was accepted. A messenger was sent, who inspired the spirit of obedience in the most stubborn of nations. The prophets are intimately connected to God, the Holy One; therefore, anyone who develops a relationship with a prophet is purified. Their example is that of an electric battery. Whoever comes into the slightest contact with it cannot remain unaffected. Do you not see that thousands of t emperance so- cieties 12 have struggled for many years with little to show for their efforts? Yet, when a voice was raised from the threshold of Muhammad sa , the Messenger of Allah, [all his followers] without exception imme- diately smashed their jars of alcohol. [In the present age], the state of the Muslims is such that they are ready to turn their backs on their faith for the smallest worldly gain. Yet from among these same Muslims, there was also Abdul Latif ra 13 who pledged his 12 Part of a social movement against the consumption of alcohol start- ing from the 19 th century. [Publishers] 13 Sahibzada Syed Abdul Latif ra (1853-1903) was the first martyr of Ahmadiyya Movement. He was Royal Advisor to Emir Abdur Rahman