Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 117
Condition VI 117 delight of faith: first, Allah and His Apostle become dearer to him than anything else. Second, he loves a person only for the sake of Allah’s love! Third, he hates to revert to disbelief as he hates to be thrown into the fire!’ ( S a hih Al-Bukh ari , Kit a bul- I m a n, B a bu H al a watil I m a n) The Promised Messiah as says: Look, Allah the Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an: 72 The only way to please Allah the Almighty is to be fully obedient to the Holy Prophet sa ; and there is no other way that will lead you to the communion with God. The final objec- tive of man should always be to find the One God who is without any partner. He should shun associating anyone with God and indulging in innovations! He should be obeying the Messenger sa and not following his personal lusts and base desires. Listen, I say it again: Man cannot succeed in any other way but by treading the true path of the Messenger sa of Allah. We have only one Messenger sa ; and only one Holy Qur’an was revealed to that Messenger sa —obeying whom we can find God. The innovations introduced by the present day fuqar a ’ [hermits] and the methods of dur u d and wa za ’if [prayer incan- tations] invented by the leaders of the hermitages are all a tool that leads a man astray. Stay away from them. These people have tried to break the Seal of the Prophets and in a way have made a different shar i ‘ah. You should remember that the key 72. Say, ‘If you love Allah, follow me: then will Allah love you… ( A l-e-‘Imr a n , 3:32)