Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 122
122 shrinks from the use of poison ? Speak and do not lie, are you* walking firmly on the path of piety on which the Holy Quran has laid so much stress ? Say and be candid, do you possess the signs which appear after ceroainty ? Nay dissemble not, and say if you love God as ardently as His righteous servants do, and if you can show that constancy and firmness in His path which the sacred ones have shown. Call Heaven to witness and say if you have an undisguished aversion to the rotten carcass of low motives and worldly desires, and if you are flying towards the true God with sincerity and zeal and the singleness of heart. Do not dissimulate nor try to please others only like a vain braggart for there is a God who sees everything you do and hears every word that you utter, and know while you speak that His wrath is a consuming fire whose flames devour every vanity and conceit in an instant, state honestly, are not your feet so enchained that you cannot move out of worldly desires and worldly vanities your hearts so bent low upon low motives that you cannot aspire after anything higher, your necks so bowed down that you cannot arise your heads to heaven r and your hands so tied that you cannot do anything which is not of worldly interest ? Had you a certain belief in God, you would have shunned the poison of sin. The whole world would have perished because of this poison, had it not been for the timely establishment of this heavenly propaganda by the Divine hand. But if you boast that you are faultless and free from the darkness of sin and attracted towards God by the powerful steam-engine of certainty, I tell you plainly that you have told a lie and brought a false charge against the maker of earth and heavens. For this daring falsehood, the curse of God shall soon be take you and disclose your misdeeds before you die. Certainty does not come alone but is attended with its light. No one can take you to heaven but he who comes from heaven.