Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 48
NU S R AT U L- H AQ Q — HE L P OF G OD 48 1 ىٰلَب ْنَم َمَلْسَا ٗهَهْجَو ِهّٰلِل َو َوُه ٌنِسْحُم This means that Islam has two parts: (i) To lose one’s self in the pleasure of God in such a way as to renounce all one’s desires and to lie prostrate at His threshold to seek His pleasure; and (ii) To do good to all of man- kind in general. Look at the beauty of this faith and the virtuous and holy principles on which it was based, but—alas!—they have strayed very far away from it. This corruption emerged at the time when they deviated from the teachings of the Holy Quran either deliberately or by mistake, since deviation—be it doctrinal or practical—deprives one of divine grace. What I mean here by ‘doctrinal deviation’ is that a per- son should be in absolute denial of the Word of God, and ‘practical deviation’ means that though he may not be in apparent denial, he is so overwhelmed by customs, habits, selfish desires, and the precepts of others that he has no regard whatsoever for the Word of Almighty God. In short, these are two evil diseases. It is necessary to follow the True Faith in order to be safeguarded from them. The first disease is to deny that God is One without partner and Possessor of all the perfect attributes and powers, and thus turn away from one’s obligations to Him, and to deny—like an ingrate—His bounties that permeate each and every particle of our bodies and souls. The second [disease] is to be negligent in fulfilling one’s obligations to mankind, or to become like a poisonous serpent for hurting anyone who is of a different race or religion or is opposed to his [race or religion], and to disregard human rights altogether. Such people are in fact dead and are unaware of the Living God. To have living faith is definitely impossible so long as a person is not bestowed the magnificent Signs and manifestations of the Living God. Although all people—barring the atheists—believe in the existence of God in one form or the other, their belief is reducible to 1. Nay, whoever submits himself completely to Allah, and is the doer of good ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:113). [Publisher]