Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 312
312 j ) Vl/ j i & ) J ) ^ ^Ju^J ) la j^J ) U d* ) "Show us the right path, the path of those upon whom Thou hast bestowed Thy blessings. " Here Almighty God enjoins you to pray five times a, day that He may grant you the blessings which were granted to the. prophets of God. But how can you attain those blessings except through the prophets. Hence it is necessary that to make you attain the stage of certainty and love, the prophets of God should appear from time to time and re-animate the dead faith and make you receive the promised blessings. Will you then oppose God and fight against Him ? Will you break His old and e&tablished law ?" "Some people think that they do. not stand in need of the Promised Messiah, nor is it necessary to believe in. him. They argue that admitting that Jesus is dead, still as they are Mus- lims and pray and fast and follow the Islamic injunctions, they do not need tiny-one else to make them better. But this is a fatal, terror- In the first place, how can such people call them- selves Muslims when they do not obey Almighty ;God and His Prophet. The command given to them respecting the Promised Messiah was that when he should make his appearance, they should run to him, and that though they should have to walk on ice upon their knees still they should reach him. But how are these orders carried out ? By saying, "We do not need the Messiah, nor do we care for him. " And those who are not sat- isfied with indifference, go a step further and hurl at me the most scurrilous abuses. They call me an heresiarch and a dajjal. Anyone who injures me in any way thinks that he has done a deed of great merit, and the one who calls me a liar be- lieves that he has, thereby pleased Almighty God. ye people] who were commanded to be patient and God-fearing and to walk in probity and righteousness, who taught you to be so