Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 367
367 the same contempt;. And if one of them does not sympathise with the other, it shall also suffer the evil consequences. If a person belonging to one of these nations does anything Co bring destruction upon the other, he is like the person who cuts the branch upon which he is himself sitting. My friends, you are all educated, and it is time that you should purge your hearts of enmity and hatred and advance in harmony. and friendliness. The progress which you have made should reserve to awaken your sympathy for your countrymen and neighbours. The difficulties one meets with in this world may be compared to a great desert which one has to pass through at a time when the heat of the sun is scorching, and to allay the heat and quench the thirst in this perilous journey is needed the cold water of union and harmony. ,. My friends, I invite you to peace. at a critical time when both nations stand urgently in need 'of peace and agreement with each other. Many are the trials and disasters which have been sent upon this world. Earthquakes and famine and plague have wrought havoc, and Almighty Grod has also informed me that if people do not repent of their evil deeds and do not forsake evil ways, more terrible disasters. still will visit our globe, and one disaster shall not leave us before another makes its appearence. At length men will be in great distress and will begin to ask as to what was going to happen. Many shall be- come like mad men because of their sufferings. Take care of yourselves, brethren, before those days arrive, and let the Hindus and the Muharnmadans unite together. If one of them' is doing o o any wrong to the other which interferes in the union, let it at once give up the doing of that wrong, otherwise it shall be whol- ly responsible for the enemity and hatred between the two. It may be said that union cannot be brought about when religious differences are making the split larger and larger every