Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 284
284 Fundamental Doctrines of Muslim Faith. (Being the substance of a speech delivered by the Promised Messiah on the 26th December 1906 at an Annual Gathering of Sadr Anjuman-i-Ahmadiyya, Qadian). Translated from the Badr t Qadian. The first fundamental principle of the faith of Islam is the recognition of Divine Unity, but it should be borne in mind that a mere belief in the Unity of God is not sufficient. One should never be contented that one is called a Muslim and believes in v the formula that "There is no god, but God". Those who have read the Holy Quran know it well that Almighty God is not pleased with lip-profession. It is the heart to which God looks because the heart is the seat of the Almighty. In the Holy Quran Almighty God speaks of the Jews as a favoured people to whom great blessings were granted, but another ^ time came upon them when their beliefs became lip-beliefs only, and the words which^ they uttered with their mouths had no access to their hearts, because while there was faith on their lips, their hearts were full of evil ideas, dis- honesty and faithlessness. Hence Almighty God sent upon them punishments of various sorts. They had still the Books of the Prophets with them in which they expressed their belief and they believed also in the Prophets, but they found no favour in the sight of God because the words they uttered were upon their lips aud their hearts did not realize the meaning of those words. Bear in mind, then, that Almighty God is not pleased with the words of the mouth when the heart is devoid of true purity. Remember this, and let cot a mere profession of belief in God deceive you, for the faith that is on the tongue and not in the