Ahmadis and the Aryas of Qadian — Page 50
50 towards God Almighty having fought baser desires. This is no easy matter and a man may only be known as the one who repents when he truly washes his hands of ad - hering to his carnal desires and accepts every hardship and choosing for himself every type of death for the sake of God, falls upon the Holy threshold of Oneness, then does he become worthy for God Almighty to grant him a life in exchange for this death. Since the Aryas consider many reincarnations as the foundation for salvation, they do not contemplate this. They do not know that the way in which a soiled cloth, after being placed in a launderer’s cauldron and then undergoing all kinds of anguish, next to clear water, in the hands of the launderer becomes clean, so does this repentance, the meaning of which I have just explained, cleanse and purify a person. When a man, falling into the fire of God Almighty’s love, burns away his entire being, the same death brought by love grants him a new life. Can you not comprehend that love is a fire and sin is a fire too—thus, does this fire, which is the fire of God’s love, destroy the fire of sin. This is the root of salvation. It is of utmost regret that the Aryas do not look towards the shortcomings of their own religion yet ad - vance absurd allegations against Islam. It is amusing that not a single one of their allegations is such that is not part