Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 3
3 principle of the absolute Unity of God should have been a gui- dance and a direction to mankind and a powerful remedy for destroying the disease. : What is the true doctrine of the Unity of God which the Holy Quran requires us to believe in and which is the only way to salvation ? It is to believe in God as one and alone in His person, and above every rival or partner whether it is an idol, or human being, or a heavenly body or one's ownself or one's resources, plans or means, 'not to regard any one as powerful against Him, not to consider any one as the sustainer, the exalter the abaser, the helper or the supporter as against the will of God, to love Him alone, to worship Him alone, to submit to Him alone, to fear Him alone and to centre all one's hopes in Him alone. There are three requirements for a complete adherence to the doctrine of Unity. Firstly, a man must believe in Unity in the person of God, i. e. he must regard everything as vain and naught before God. Secondly he must believe in Unity in the attributes of God and consider Divinity and -Lordship as the attributes of none besides God, looking upon all those who seem to have an authority as having it from Him. Thirdly, there must be unity in the love, sincerity and devotion which he bears to God; in other words, nothing else must have a share of his love, and de- votion towards God and of the other aspects of his adoration, and he must be completely lost in Him. These three aspects of the Divine Unity had not been taught by any book before the 'Quran, and that which had been taught by Moses* and the Israelite prophets was not acted upon by the Jews and the Christians. The iniquity and gross immorality in which these people indulged at that time is a clear testimony to the truth of the statement that they admitted the existence of God with their lips, but their hearts were utter strangers to this exalting and noble