Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 86
86 I also enjoin upon you not to forsake the Quran, for in it is v your life. Those who honor the Quran, shall be honored upon heaven ; those who prefer the Quran, shall be preferred upon \l heaven. There is no book on the face of earth for the guidance of </ the world but the Quran, and no apostle for the intercession of mankind but the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him. Endeavour to bear true love to this. Prophet of honor and glory, and do not give excellence to any one over him that you may be written on heaven among those who are saved. Do not deceive yourselves that; you shall bee salvation only after your death, for true salvation is that which f reveals its light in this very life. Who is saved ? He who knows the existence of God to be certainly true and certainly knows the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him, to be the intercessor between men and God. Under \ heaven there is no other apostle of. equal dignity with the Holy Prophet, nor-' any book of equal, excellence with the Holy Quran- I To none has Almighty^ God willed to vouchsafe an everlasting i life, but the chosen Pprphet lives for ever. Of this his everlasting life. Almighty God has thus laid the foundation that He has conti- nued the benefits of his Law and spirituality to the day of judg- ment, and through the continuance of his spiritual blessings, has at last favored the world with the advent of the Promised Messiah whose advent was necessary for the completion of the Islamic building. It was necessary that this world should not have come to an end until a spiritual Messiah had been raised in the Muslim line like to the one who had been raised in the Mosaic line. I am that Messiah : God has ordained it to be so. The fool fights with his God but the wise man submits to His decrees. He has sent me with more than ten thousand. shining signs of which the plague is also one. My soul cannot intercede for the safety from