Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 137
13,7 (that is to say, who tremble in the presence of Divine awe and majesty, and on account of the humbleness of their hearts and their respect for the Divine injunctions fear to tread not only the paths of open transgression, but also those of doubtful rectitude, and whose. words and deeds are marked by a want of boldness and by an exercise of due care and caution) ; and God is with those who are faithful to Him and who do good to His creatures. He is Mighty and Powerful ; He has power over everything, but most people do not know it. When He willeth a thing, His command to it is, Be, and it comes into existence. Can you flee from Me and verily We will revenge Ourselves upon the sinful- They say : 1 It is but the Word of man and other people assist him in the matter ; he is an ignorant man or beside himself. ' Say to them : 'If you love God, come, follow me that God may love you. ' As for those who deride thee, have thou nothing to do with them, for We;will maintain thy cause against them. I will bring him to disgrace who is intent upon thy disgrace, and will assist him who assists thee. I am God in whose presence the sent ones fear not. When the assistance of God and victory will come, and the Word of thy Lord will be fulfilled, then will it be said; ' This is what you hastened. ' And when it is said to them ' cause not disorders in the earth, they say,' 'Nay, rather do we set matters right ' ; of a certainty they themselves are the authors of disorder. And they take thee as the subject of their railleries, and say in derision : 'Is this he whom God has sent as an Apostle !' This is how they take thee, but the fact is that We offered truth to them and they hated it and rejected it. Verily, they who walk unjustly will soon find out in what direction they shall be turned. Praised is God and exalted high above what they ascribe to Him. And they say ' Thou art not a Messenger of God ' ; say to them ' I have with me the testimony of God; will you then believe?'