Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 323
it Is evident that fche latter boat will be. . drowned to save , the former, and ttre destruction of a few men when> such valuable lives are saved wiillrbe a matter of rejoicing, not. one of regret. Such is the Divine law with respect to those whom God sends as His Representatives upon earth to bring men. to the right path. Those who stand against them however virtuous, they may regard themselves are brought to naught) because otherwise the object: of. God in sending His apostles would altogether; fail. If He were not to protect them and destroy -, their enemies, no tme; worship per of God would be Mfc ; upo,n earth. Th. e world Jpoks at the majority and. thinks the greater, number to be, in the right, but God does not look at numbers and. appearances but at hearts. The light of the love of God and of ; true sincerity and faithfulness to Him which is visible in the elect of God, is. such that I would have described it in words if I could. ;B,ut ; ; since the world began, no Prophet of God has been able to describe this secret, The soul of His faithful servants falls-down on the Pi vine threshold. with a submissiveness which cannot be express sed in words- : :. ;-. . . ;. ;. . . . . ,. - ; After promising a safety for. me Almighty God says in the [revelation quoted, above : "But two sheep," i. e^ two of my. followers, "will be slaughtered," i. e. , killed blameless, /'and every- thing that qxists upon earth will ultimately pass away," : In the sacred books,; meek and innocent man. are presented by sheep and sometimes- by cows. In this, prophecy Almighty God has not, used the. words that two of my followers would be martyrs, 'but has figuratively expressed the : same idea in beautiful langu- age by. speaking of; the slaughter of two sheep. In the sheep we find two great uses; we get fro. m,it milk to drink and flesh to ^eat. This prophecy relates to the irjartyrdom of Maul vi Abdul JLatif- and his disciple. Abdul Bah map, and it has -been fulfilled