Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 125
125 God. Where there is doubt there can be no salvation, for the pure fountain-head from which salvation flows is certainty. The greatest 'blessing that man can have is the certainty that there is a God who in His wrath consumes the sinners and the trans- gressors, and in His mercy turns to those who turn to Him. This certainty is the only remedy for all sins. No other atonement can ever release you from the bondage of sin, no blood can wash the impurities of your heart. Is it not a matter of every day experience that certainty alone is the true barrier against every- thing that is harmful. You do not hold out your hand over a flame because you know that it will burn. You do not stand before a furious lion because you are certain that it will tear you. You do not take a poison, for you are fully conscious that the resuh will be death. Countless instances have verified the fact that where there is a certainty of loss or destruction proceeding from an act, it is never essayed and is viewed with horror. Why not apply this established truth in matters spiritual ? Nothing but certainty can keep a man back from sin. A goat will not feed in a pasture where there is a lion standing before it such r is the wonderful effect of certainty even upon animals. The heart which is full of the certainty of God's existence and of His power, awe and grandeur, can never think of disobedience to His commandments. But if a person cannot refrain from the com- mission of sin, it is certain that certainty does not reign in his heart. Has a certainty of God's existence not even the force of a certainty in the material world, or is the one of a lower degree than the other ? Want of certainty is the only cause of the sin which drives a man away from the presence of God, and generates a hellish life. Ah. with what trumpets should I proclaim that certainty alone can effect a release from the bondage of sin, a renunciation of false