Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 180
180 what house Would be devastated and what saved. Arise then and repent, and please your Lord with good and virtuous deeds. Mind that though errors in belief would be punished in the life to come, and the fact of being a Hindu or a Muhaminadan or a Christian would be decided on the day of judgment, yet the person who exceeds all limits in his transgressons, evils and injustice to others, will be punished even here, and he cannot flee from the wrath of heaven. Kise then and please your Master and be at peace with Him before the terrible day cornes, the day of the raging of plague, of which the prophets of God have prophesied. Keconcile yourselves with your Lord, for He is the most merciful and if you repent truly and forsake the ways of evil, He will for- give you all your sins. A single moment's repentance with a true and fearful heart cancels the evil deeds of seventy years. Do not say that your repentance is not accepted by God. No ! you cannot be saved by your own deeds, it is the grace of God that takes you by the hand and not your own deeds. Merciful and Gracious God, show mercy to us for we are Thy servants and bow our- selves at Thy threshold, *My Claim to Promised Messiahship. Gentlemen, I would now say something about my own claims which I have published in this country. Reason and history bear witness to the fact that when the darkness of sin oversha- dows the earth, when all sorts of transgressions prevail in the world and evil is supreme, when the spiritual sensibilities are deadened, when the earth growing impure with immoral practi- ces and the love of God being numbed in the hearts of men, a poisonous wind begins to blow, the mercy of God then ordains that life should again be breathed into dead hearts and the earth * This subject forms the second part of the same lecture.