Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 25
25 ascend them. If any one has been purified, it is through cer- tainty that he has found this blessing. Certainty gives the power to meet every hardship, so much so chat it makes the monarch throw away the royal sceptre and don the garments of a darvesh. Certainty lightens the labour and smooths the path. Certainty enables a man to see God. Every atonement is false and every redemption vain, for to righteousness there is no other way but certainty. It is certainty which releases a man from the bondage of sin, carries him to God and makes him surpass even the angels in his sincerity and perseverance. The religion that has not the means to bring about a certainty, is- false". The religion which cannot show the face of the living God with cer- tainty, is false. The religion which has nothing but idle tales of the marvels of the past, is false. The eternal and unchangeable God is even now as He was in the past ages, and his wonderful powers are the same as they were-, ere now, and He has the same might to show His wonderful signs as He had at any previous time. Why then trust in tales and not seek the living manifes- tations of irhe power of God ? That religion is nothing but the way to perdition whose miracles and prophecies are stories and those people are ruined to whom God has not revealed Himself and who have not been purified by the hand of God through certainty. As a man is drawn to indulgence in his carnal passions on account of the animal gratification which he feels in them, similarly he is attracted to God with a mighty magne- tism when he has once tasted the heavenly bliss. His. , beauty then so enchants him that all else besides Him is naught to him. No man is evers freed from the slavery of sin unless he has a certain knowledge of God and His power and of the reward and punishment of good and evil deeds. The root from which every insolence grows in the lack of certainty, and the person