Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 154
154 AHMADIYY AT and does not obey them in all matters that are not contrary to the Quran and is careless in serving Him diligently, is not of my Community. He who does not treat his wife and her relatives with gentleness and benevolence and he who refrains from doing even the least good to his neighbour is not of my Community. He who does not forgive an offender and entertains rancour, and every husband who deceives his wife, and every wif~ who deceives her husband, is not of my Community. He who breaks the covenant of Ba'jat in any respect and does not believe in me as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, and he who is not willing to obey me in all good matters, and he who consorts with my opponents and endorses what they say,is not of my Community. Every adulterer, disobedient one, wine-bibber, murderer, thief, gambler, deceiver, bribe-taker, usurper, tyrant, liar, forger and their companions, and everyone who calumniates his brothers or sisters, and does not repent of his vices, and does not refrain fromjoining evil company, is not of my Community. All this is poison. You cannot swallow poison and survive; light and darkness cannot exist together. Everyone who has a crooked disposition and is not straightforward with God can never achieve the blessing that is bestowed on the pure hearted. How fortunate are those who cleanse their hearts and purify them of every impurity and are faithful to God, for they will not be destroyed. It is not possible that God should humiliate them, for they are God's and God is theirs. They will be safeguarded against every calamity. Foolish is the enemy who moves against them, for they are in the lap of God and enjoy God's support. Who believes truly in God? Only those who are such as we have just described. He too is foolish who follows a fearless sinner, vicious and evil-minded, for such a one will destroy himself in due course. Ever since God has created the heaven and the earth, it has never chanced that He should have ruined or destroyed or obliterated the good. On the contrary, He has always shown wonders in their behalf and will also show them now. He is a very faithful God and for the faithful He manifests wondrous works. The world desires to devour them, and every enemy grinds his teeth at them, but He, Who is their Friend, delivers them from every place of danger and bestows victory upon them in every field. How fortunate is the person who never lets go of the robe of God. We have believed in Him and we have recognized Him. The God of the whole world is He Who has