Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 165
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 165 have been cut off from our Movement. Vain is their assertion that they are members of this Community, for in heaven they are not accounted as such. He who does not comply with my admonitions and does not in truth uphold the faith above the world, and does not carry out a pure chang'e in his life, and does not become pure-hearted and pure-intentioned, and does not cast aside the garment of impurity and foul living, and does not sympathize with mankind, and does not become truly obedient to God, and does not follow me, abandoning his own designs, is like a dog who cannot keep away from the place where carrion is thrown. Am I in need of people who should profess with their tongues that they are with me, so that I should have a large Community for show? I tell you truly that if all people were to abandon me and not one of them would remain with me, my God will create another people who will be better than these in their sincerity and loyalty. It is through a heavenly attraction that good-hearted people are being drawn towards me arid no one can obstruct this heavenly attrac- tion. Some people rely more upon their own cunning and deceit than upon God. Perhaps in their secret hearts they entertain the notion that all prophethood and messengership is a pretence and that such people acquire fame and are accepted by chance. No concept is more corrupt than this one. He who thinks like this has no faith in God, without Whose command not a leaf falls from a tree. Accursed are such hearts and such dispositions. God will destroy them in humiliation, for they are the enemies of God's designs. Such people are atheists and have only impurity in their hearts. They carryon a hellish life and after death they can look forward to nothing but the fire of hell [T ableegh Risalat, Vol. X, pp. 61-2]. The name which is appropriate for this Movement and which we prefer for ourselves is Muslims of the Ahmadiyya sect. We have chosen this name because the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, had two names Muhammad and Ahmad; Muhammad was his name of glory and Ahmad was his name of beauty. In the name of Muham- mad was implicit a prophecy that the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, would punish with the sword such enemies as would attack Islam with the sword and slaughter hundreds of Muslims. His name Ahmad indicated that he would spread peace and security in the world. God'so arranged the life of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, that his Meccan life was a manifestation of his name