Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 311
311 love of this world and the darknesss in which the Muslims are involved naturally call for one who, being inspired from heaven, should rise and take them by the hand. Still I am called a dajjal. How deplorable must be the condition of a people to whom at the critical moment in their life a dajjal is sent! How unfortunate the nation which when standing at the brink of destruction, is visited by. another destruction from heaven ! They / call me accursed and a heretic, but there is nothing new in that; / The same epithets were given to Jesus Christ and are still given to him by the Jews. But those who will be punished in hell for their evils, will say 1M v*} ) )/* D ) ^ ^ *u Uf )) \^ ; ^ y 5 UJ: U y i. . , " Why see we not the men whom we numbered among the wicked. " The world has ever been an enemy to the Messengers >- of God, for the love of the world and the love of God's righteous prophets cannot go together. Had you too not loved the world, you could have seen rue, but now you cannot," It is but excessive vanity which makes a man think that he does not stand in need of the prophets of. God, He deceives himself who says: "Do I not say my prayers? Do I not keep the fasts? Do 1 not recite the formula of faith ? " He is not aware of the true faith and of the transcendent delight which it brings with it. Ponder over the creation of man; it is God who has created him, but see how He has made one man an instrument in bringing another- into existence. As in the phy- sical birth of man, Almighty God, has established the law of a procreator, so a spiritual father is also necessary for the spritual birth of man. Take care, therefore, that you are not deceived with the mere form and ceremony, the husk of Islam. Head attentively the word of God and think. what he requires of you. He desires you ~to attain to the stage which He has Himself taught you to. pray for. Head the Fatiha which says :