Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 121
121 to all other systems ? Can any wise man be expected to condemn a thing which is encrementitious- and devour another which stinks as nasty ? Every good heart is w. illing to- accept the truth, pro- vided truth is able to show its light. What is generally offered now-a-days to other nations under the name of Islam, is husk not kernel, shadow not substance. How can be accepted then ? What is the use of conversion if there is no change for the better. A person changes his religion to get rid of some evil, and as a remedy for a disease, but if the same disease prevails in the new religion, what good there is in the change. Do not even the Brahmoos with all their rejection of the most excellent attributes of God, assert that they believe in one God ? But the truth is that none believes in God except the person whose eye of certainty has been opened. He only is released from the bondage of sin who sees God with the eye of certainty. -All other stories are false, all atonements vain. The same Living God who manifested Himself by His word spoken 'through His prophets, 'manifests Himself again in this last age by the same means through me that people may believe and escape destruction. The Holy Quran is, no doubt, the Word of God; Hig most excellent word, but it is a sealed book to you, ye sleepers ! Your eyes cannot see it, nor can your understandings comprehend it. It' is now in your hands but you cannot get its blessings -like the unbelieving Jews who had the books of the prophets in their hands. If you speak justly, 'you shall yourselves bear witness that on account of the disappearance of the light of its certainty from your eyes, you cannot avail yourselves of its power of sanctification. If the testimony of external facts h. as any weight, you can bear witness against your own condition in this age, if you mind tobear a true testimony. Tell me truly, do you shrink, from sin and act against righteousness as a man