Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 162
162 for the honor and majesty of his Lord, and fearing that he shall have to stand one day in His presence, forsake sin,, shall be granted two paradises ; viz. , a paradise in this world and a paradise in the next. The paradise in this world means a hea- venly life which begins with a pure transformation in this life when Almighty God becomes the sole administrator of one's affairs, and the paradise in the next means the eternal bliss and enjoyments of after-life which shall be granted to the righteous. Elsewhere the Holy Quran says: ^ f& ^ & J U) * ) } f*i&)y^K ^ ^ vjij**j h' y ] vy j J ;**" j ^ h 1UU u K (& &}*"}> ;*-. ) j&*> ' j j j 3 ?^. ^ J ) J ^ ^ so & * ^ l# % MJ j U?*. Jj* " Yerily we have prepared chains and collars and that which burns the heart for those who do not believe in God, and hence do not entertain love for God and are bent low upon earth. (Their feet are enchained with the love of this world and in their necks are collars of estrangement from God which keep their heads bent down upon the world and do not allow them to raise them up towards heaven, and their hearts burn with the unsatisfied desires of this world). But the righte- ous are made to drink in this very world of a cup which is mixed with camphor which cools the love of this world and quenches the thirst of seeking the world. It is a spring of camphor which is granted them and they divide it into running streams and thus place its refrigerent waters within the reach of the thirsty near and far. (When the standing water of the spring is made to run into a stream and the power of faith is streng- thened) they are then made to drink of another cup with which is mixed ginger. (For when the camphorated cup has benumbed the love of this world, another syrup is needed which should generate in the heart the warmth of Divine love. This is what is meant by the syrup mixed with ginger because the