Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 340
340 It is also necessary that you, should show true sympathy and purify your souls, and thus get the blessing of the holy spirit for without the Holy spirit true righteousness can never be attained. After utterly forsaking all passions, walk for the pleasure of God in a path than which no path is narrower. Be not charmed with the enjoyments of this world for they- separate you from God, and for the sake of God lead a life which seeing hard. Pain in which is the pleasure of God is better than the pleasure which is the cause of the displeasure of God. Defeat in which is the pleasure of God is better than the victory which brings with it the wrath of God. Forsake the things whose love brings you nearer the wrath of God. If you come to Him with a pure heart, He will assist you in every path and your enemy will not be able to do you any harm. You can never attain the pleasure of God until you forsake your own pleasures, your en- joyments, your position, your property and your life, and in His path meet every difficulty which brings before your eyes the scene of death. Bat if you meet all difficulties, you will be taken into the bosom of God like a dear child, and made heirs to the righteous who have gone before you and the doors of every bles- sing will be opened to you* But- there are very few who can do it, Addressing me Almighty God said that righteousness is a tree which should be planted in the heart, and the water which gives nourishment to the tree of righteousness, waters the -those days, and remember, that every one is recognised in his own time, for before that time he may look like an. ordinary man, or appear objectionable on account of some false impres- sions, as every one who afterwards becomes a grown up and per- fect man is at one time only semen or a portion of clotted blood in the womb. . . . . . .