Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 91
91 attended with a transformation of the heart. Almighty God sees your hearts and shall deal with you according to their state. Hear, and in saying this I am discharged of the responsibility of delivering my message to you, that sin is a poison and therefore shun it, and that the disobedience of God is an obominable death and therefore eschew it. Pray God that strength be given to you. He who, when he prays, is faint-hearted and does not consider God as powerful over everything except where He Himself has promised to the contrary, is not of rny followers. He who forsakes not lying and deceit, is not of my followers. He who is involved in the greedy love of this world and does not even raise his eye to look the next, is not of my followers. He who does not in practice give a preference to matters of religion over his worldly affairs, is not of my followers. He who does not repent of every evil and wickedness, such as drinking- wine, gambling, looking to lust, dishonesty, bribery and every other iniquity is not of rny followers. He who is not regular in his five daily prayars, is not of my followers. He who is not constantly supplicating before God and praying to Him with humbleness of heart is not of my followers. He who forsakes not the company of the wicked who cast their evil influence over him, is not of my followers. He who does not revere his parents, or does not obey them in that which is fair and not against the Holy Quran, or does not care to serve them to his utmost, is not of my followers. He who is not kind and gentle towards his wife and her relatives, is not my followers. He who refuses his neighbour the least good in his power, is not of my followers. He who forgives not the trespasses of others and harbours revenge, is not of my followers. The husband who is false to his wife or the wife that is false to. her husband, is not of my followers. He who breaks in any way the promise which he makes at the time of Baiat, is not of rny followers. He who does t-