Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 130
V 130 away their coat, give the cloak also, and refrain their eyes from looking to lust, and do not judge other people, and have not crooked, deceitful and ambitious hearts? If any one is rarely to be met with among them with these qualifications, he has not shunned evil because of the injunctions of the Gospel but owing to his own good nature. In short, as you stand in need of fresh meals every new morning, you require fresh revelation to renew your faith- When the light of faith which is certainty, begins to diminish with the lapse of time, people rehearse the Word of God, but the rehearsal does not pass their lips. The Word of God remains far from them and does not even touch them, and, therefore, they cannot be affected with its good influence. So the word is taken away from among them, and leaving but dead bones in their hands it rises to heaven. Then a new magnetiser is created and the Word of God draws him to itself and with the strength of the word he is granted a certainty. The knowledge which had risen to heaven is brought back by him to earth. This is the Divine Law according to which certainty is generated afresh in the hearts by the fresh Word of God. The hearts that follow the law which Almighty God has abolished, become disfigured. There does not remain a single man in their midst who is worthy of receiving a new Divine revelation. Such a book is like the stagnant and stinking water with which is mixed an enormous quantity of filth and inud. Such a law gives no benefit to its followers, for its signs are all idle tales of the past. The fresh water of heaven, i. 0, the fresh Divine revelation, does not come to them. These are the signs that God has forsaken such a people. It is, therefore, a criterion of a dead religion that it is wanting in the light of fresh revelation. The people who follow it, put their trust in words which are not confirmed by the