Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 363
363 peoples and He is not unjust bo any. . The powers and faculties Which He granted to the ancient people of India were also granted to the Arabs, the Persians, the Syrians, the Chinese, the Japanese the Europeans and the Americans. For all the earth of God serves alike as a floor, and for the sake of all the sun, the moon and the stars give their light and perform such other functions as God has charged them with. All people alike derive benefit from air, water, fire, earth and other things created by God and all equally use the produce of the earth, its corns and its herbs, its flowers and its fruits. These are the broad Divine morals which give us a lesson that we should also do good to all our fellow beings and should not havecontracted views and narrow sympathy. My friends, know it for certain that whichever of us two people shall not revere the Divine morals and shall make its national character opposed to those high and pure morals shall soon be destroyed, and not only shall that generation suffer alone but even the children of that people shall suffer the evil consequences. Since the world was created, the righteous of all countries have borne testimony that there is water of life in the Divine morals, and that the physical life of man depends on his imitating the Divine morals which are the fountain-head of peace and safety. The Holy Quran opens with a verse which teaches this broad doctrine. Tne first verse of the "Opening" chapter of the Holy Quran says : ^ W ) ^ j <dJ j^sJ ) i, e. , "All perfect and pure attributes belong to God who is the Lord of all the worlds. " The words used here are so general that they include all the different people, different ages and different countries. The opening of the Holy Quran with a verse which is so broad in its significance shows clearly that the Holy Quran refutes the doctrine which sets limits to the vast and unlimited grace and sustenance of God reserving the manifestation of these attributes