Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 442
442 is the result, of ybtir : own misdeeds, i f t is -lilie fruit of- insuHihg'th'e Holy Prophet (may peace and the blessings of God be upon him!). Now you are going to commit another mistake; you are going to lay the Holy Prophet (may peace arid the blessings of God be upon him!) under an obligation to Mr. Gandhi. Jesus was after all a prophet but the man whom you have now taken as your religious guide is not even a believer. -So the fruit of this latter insult to the Holy Prophet (may peace and the blessings of God be upon him) will even be more bitter. If you do not desist from this course you wold have to live, as a punishment of this crime, in even 'humbler servitude to Mr. Gandhi's community, than that in which you allege you are held by the Christians. You have time to repent and mend your course even now. The deli- verer of the people of the Holy Prophet (may peace and the blessings of God be upon him!) can rise only from among his followers, one, that is, who will ever be proud to call himself the slave of the Holy Prophet. Let not the thought cross your mind that you had already practised co-operatian and had even rubbed foreheads of humility on the threshold of the British Government' and that there was no prospect of your gaining. anything from that door, that you had served them like slaves^ that you had even flattered them, had entreated and prayed to them and that, to tell the truth, you had even worshipped them, but the result was that they made you cut the throats of your brethern with your own hands and that afterwards they forsook you also and pushed you into that very pit which they had made you dig. I admit the correctness of your' statement. You indeed acted in the way you describe and they have given you the reward which you say they have given you. But you know that deeds are judged by the motive of the doer. Did you do all this