Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 172
172 AHMADIYY AT taken up into the lap of God like a dear child and you will become heirs to the righteous ones who have passed on before you, and the doors of every bounty will be opened to you. But there are few such. God has told me that righteousness is a tree which should be planted in the heart. The water that nourishes righteousness irri- gates the whole garden. Righteousness is a root without which nothing can be gained, but if that root flourishes everything is gained. What shall it profit a man to claim by word of mouth that he is seeking God, when he does not step forth with sincerity? I tell you truly that the person who mixes the least desire for the world with his faith will be ruined. Hell is very close to the one all whose designs are not for God, but some are for God and some are for the world. If you have the least mixture of the world in your purposes, all your worship is vain. In such case you do not follow God, but follow Satan. You should not have the least expectation that God will help you for you would be like an insect of the earth, and within a few days you would be destroyed like such an insect. God will not be in you. Indeed it will please Him to destroy you. But if you will impose a death upon yourself, then you will appear in God and God will be with you. The house wherein you dwell will be blessed and God's mercy will descend on the walls of your house, and the city wherein you reside will be hallowed. If your life and your death and your every movement and your gentleness and your wrath become solely for the sake of God, and you will not seek to try God at the time of every hardship and misfortune, and will not cut asunder from Him, but will ever go forward, then I tell you truly that you will become a chosen people of God. You are human beings as I am a human being, and my God is your God. Do not waste your pure faculties. If you will lean wholly towards God, then I tell you, according to God's will, that you will become an exalted people of God. Let the greatness of God pervade your hearts, and do affirm His Unity not only by the tongue but in practice so that God should manifest His beneficence for you in practice. Cast aside all rancour and have true sympathy with mankind. Adopt every way of goodness, for you do not know by what way you might be accepted. I give you the good news that the field of nearness to God is empty. All people love the world and no one pays attention to that which would please God. Those who wish to enter through this door with full eagerness, have the opportunity to prove their