Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 407
40? Ahmad's Teachings to his Followers. (Translated from Urdu by Molvie Rahim Bakhsh, Saheb M. A. ) He who wishes to become a follower of mine must embrace the religion of Islam and follow the Book of Allah, the Holy Quran, and the ritual of our leader, the best of men, He must believe in Allah the Benevolent and the Merciful and His Holy Prophet. He must believe in the day of Judgment, the day of Resurrection, Heaven and Hell. He must promise and profess that he would never wish for any other religion except Islam and that he would live out in his life this religion which is the religion of nature and that he would stick to the Book of Allah the Omniscient, and that he would mould his life so as to act upon the Sunnat and the Quran and whatever was practised by a majority of the dignified Sahaba. He who leaves all these three gives himself up to the flames of hell ; his end shall be ruin and destruction. Know ye brothers! that true faith is never realised but with good actions and the fear of Q-od. So he who leaves such actions intentionally and out of vanity is held faithless in the sight of the Almighty. Fear God, brothers ! and hasten towards good actions and shun the evil deeds before you die. Let not the beauty and freshness of this world delude you and let not tbe brilliancy and splendour of this house make you vain and proud, for it is a mirage and its end is destruction. Its sweetness is bitterness. Its profit is loss. And those who seek its grandeur are like the target of a lance; and those who wish for its greatness are like one pricked by a thorn. And he who falls upon its wealth, gets himself away from the first principles of