Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 218
218 their ardour has cooled, and over fcheir eyes are coverings. Ifc would have been center if these people had not fallen into temptation, for no one can withstand the will of G-od and the word is gone out of His mouth that He shall save those who follow me. This I declare before the whole world, and request the leaders of other religious sects that if they enjoy any favor in the sight of God, they should also announce similar protection for their followers and publish the fact beforehand so that seekers after truth might be able to judge afterwards of the merits of each religion. Tne Christian Missionaries should particularly take advantage of this occasion. They assert that there is no deliverance but through Jesus. Let them, therefore, deliver the Christians from this terrible calamity. Of all these sects only that one can claim the truth which now proves itself to be most acceptable in the sight of G-od. Every one can now give proof of the favor he enjoys with the Almighty Being, without entering into a controversy. Tne method proposed will not only decide the truth of a religion, but also save its adherents from the plague. If the Christian Missionaries sincerely look upon the son of Mary as their deliverer here and hereafter, they should be foremost in declaring the efficacy of a belief in tnat Redeemer as a safer protector from plague. In this manner Government will be relieved of a great burden, for every religious leader shall undertake to procure protection for his own people from the God which he believes in or from anything else, which he regards as his Deity, and intercede with him to save his suffering worshippers. This method is calculated to do immense good to mankind, to furnish the proof of the truth of a religion and to assist the Government in its care for its subjects. I must also add that those of rny followers for whom the Government has rendered it compulsory to get inoculated, should obey the