Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 164
164 AHMADIYY AT will God then desert me? Never. Will He destroy me? Never. My enemies will be humiliated and those who are envious of me will be put to shame, but God will bestow victory in every field upon His servant. I am with Him and He is with me. Nothing can break our relationship. I swear by His honour and His glory that I hold nothing dearer in this world and in the hereafter than that the greatness of His religion may be manifested, His glory may shine forth, and His Word may be exalted. By His grace I am not afraid of any trial, even if I am confronted not with one but with ten million trials. I have been bestowed strength for the field of trials and the jungle of persecutions. He who does not wish to follow me can depart from me. I do not know how many terrible and thorny forests I may have to traverse. Why do those who are tender-footed put themselves to trouble with me? Those who are mine will not depart from me, neither on account of misfortune, nor in consequence of the vilification of people, nor through heavenly trials and tribulations. Those who are not mine, vain are their affirmations of friendship, for they will soon be separated from me and their last state would be worse than their first [Anwarul Islam, p. 23]. I pray earnestly that all members of my Community should be such as fear God Almighty and are constant in Prayer and get up at night and fall upon the earth and weep and discharge their obliga- tions to God and are not avaricious or miserly, or heedless and insects of the earth. I hope that God Almighty will accept my prayers and will show me that I am leaving such people behind. But those whose eyes commit adultery and whose hearts are more foul than privies are, who do not remember death and with whom God is disgusted are welcome to cut asunder; and it will please me greatly if they would do so, for God desires to make this Com- munity a people observing whom others should remember God, and who should be established at the highest level of righteousness and purity and who in practice and in truth prefer their faith to the world. But those wicked ones who, having placed their hands in my hand and having professed that they will uphold their faith above the world, return to their homes and occupy themselves with purely worldly matters, whose glances are not pure, nor their hearts, no good issues from their hands, nor do they move their feet. for the achieving of any good, are like rats who are nurtured in darkness and dwell in darkness and die in darkness. In heaven they