Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 221
221 you look with suspicion upon the measures or. disobey the orders of the Government under which you are living peacefully and whose favours you have witnessed many a time. It is your own misfortune if you turn away from its orders which are meant for your own welfare. I do not say aught to you but what is for your own good) and I do not stand in need of flattering the Government, for there is only one Lord who is my refuge and whose protection I seek. He is the King of the earth and the heavens and I trust that till I die, I shall not stand in need of anybody else. But I cannot conceal that this Government is a great benefactor of ours and except that we can pass our lives with peace and security under this Government, there is not so much as a span of earth where we should lead our lives in safety. If therefore we are not thankful to this Government which Almighty God has chosen for our comfort and safety we shall be unthankful to God. If I arn not right in saying this, name the Government which will afford you a shelter in case you leave the shelter of this Government. You have heard that the Maulvies who are opposed to you and who are followed by millions of people in this and other countries have published in pamphlets, notices and newspapers judgments declaring that you are here- tics and that your murder is a deed of merit. Similar judg- ments have more recently been published in the Civil and Mili- tary Gazette by Syed Muhammad of Peshawar and Maulvi Muhammad Husain of Batala who gives himself out to be the advocate of the Ahl-i-Haddes sect. Where then is peace for you except under this Government? Certainly you cannot find it under any Muslim Rule. Be faithful to this Government-with a true and sincere heart and let there be no desire of reward on your pare for what you have done, for their is sufficient reward for any service tbat you may render in that Almighty God has