Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 32
h a d rat Mirza ghulam AHmAD as 32 are sincere advisors. Do not approach them with food containing poison, lest they eat and die, while you live with them in pros- perity and draw from their waste. If harm befalls them, how can you be protected? They own your necks, your honour, and your wealth, so be sincere to those who own you. Allah has made them as equipment for you and made you as tools for them, so help one another in righteousness and piety if you are sincere. Alert them to their bad deeds and inform them of their lapses if you are not hypocrites. By Allah, they are a people who do not fulfil the rights of those whom they have been appointed over, nor do they uphold their obligations or covenants. You can recognise the truth of this matter by their faces, which change more than their minds, and by their outfits, which are more wretched than their condition. It is as if their insides have been mutilated and as if they were created in a state that they do not know. By Allah, we see that their hearts are even harder than the stones of mountains, and their natures are fiercer than that of tigers and serpents. They are a people who do not supplicate. From these deeds and actions, it is evident that they have displeased their Lord and chosen the paths of misguid- ance. They have consumed lethal poison and distributed it among their subjects, thus bearing two shares of the evil consequences: they will enter Hell and also lead others into it. Everything that has befallen Islam is a result of their evil deeds and corrupt actions. O theologians! Is there a man among you who can explain the consequences of these qualities to them? They are people who have forsaken their religion for evil inclinations and wasted deeds, resembling a cross-eyed person in all events. Indeed, I see them as blind and unable to see. I do not say to you to sever