Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 119
119 who can wield this trusty sword and is a true judge of its worth, also conies with it. Therefore every age stands in need of anew champion to bring about a true and fresh certainty with regard to the Holy Quran, to reveal its true worth and to convince its opponents through it of its truth and their error. This need is the greater in this last age, for, being the time of the appearance of Antichrist and of the final struggle between heavenly and earthly forces, a braver vanquisher must appear in the field, In short, when the Holy Quran says plainly that the man who remains blind in this life (i e. , does not see the light of certainty) shall also be blind in the next (i. e. } shall nbt attain to salvation), it is the duty of every seeker after truth to seek this light; of vision and seek the living religion in which the lights of the living God are manifest. Lifeless is the religion in which the chain of a certain Divine revelation does not run unbroken. Such a religion closes the way to certainty, the only light to attain salvation, and makes men depend upon idle tales of marvels done in the past. It makes them despair of God and throws them into utter darkness How can a religion point the way to God and release men from the bondage of sin, when it has no means of bringing them to certainty. It is only with the shinning of the sun of certainty that the day of the disappearance of sin rises. The only true religion in the world is that which shows the way of certainty by living heavenly signs, and those who do not follow such a religion are in hell in this very life. What can a mere doubt avail when it leads us to the only conclusion that a thing may be either right or wrong. Freedom from sin is impossi- ble without certainty. To lead an angelic life upon earth is a tale without certainty. To forsake the world and all its immoral pleasures is impossible without certainty. Pure transformation in one's life is Impossible without certainty. To be drawn to God