The Honour of Prophets — Page 10
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 10 ٖ خَیْرُکُم ْ خَیْرُکُم ْ بِاَھْلِہ That is to say, those most compassionate to mankind from among you can only be those who are most compas sionate to their wives. However, he who treats his wife in a cruel and wicked manner cannot possibly behave benef icently towards others. For when God created Adam, it was his wife who was made the first object of his love. Therefore, he who does not love his wife or has no wife to love, cannot attain to the status of a perfect man and lacks one of the conditions of intercession. Even if he is sinless, he is not capable of intercession. However, he who marries a woman establishes for himself the basis on which sympathy for mankind is fostered, for a wife becomes the means for establishing a wide circle of rela tions, and when children are born they go on to marry too, then their children also come to have grandmothers and uncles etc. of their own. In this way, such a person becomes habituated towards love and sympathy and the sphere of this habit then extends to encompass everyone. But those who live a life of celibacy like yogis find no opportunity to extend this habit, and their hearts are left hard and arid. Sinlessness has nothing to do with intercession because a sinless person only refrains from committing sin and the definition of sin is intentional disobedience to the