Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 206
206 There have only come hundreds of liars and pretenders. �یف ش ک� وگیئ ارگ را اتابن لعل وجرہے رونش دقر اکدہ ہچ ن ں ی � ز If you call a brilliant ruby worthless, The lustrous stone will not be any the less precious for it. وبد اپاکن رب ہن اپاکن رب ہنعط افرجے یتسہ ہک اثتب ینک وخد Reviling the virtuous affects them not in the least, It only reveals your own wickedness. The fifth pillar of faith in Islam is the belief in the Hereafter and in Heaven and Hell. The Muslims did their best to bring down this pillar as well. Their hearts were definitely in denial of life after death, why else would they have so blatantly turned their backs on the teachings of Islam? Even on the physical level, strange concepts were being entertained. The idea of Paradise held by a Muslim reflected the fact that the true meaning of Paradise had been forgotten. Paradise to them was no more than a place of fun and pleasure. In other words, they thought that the purpose of man’s existence was to go to a place where he would have plenty of food and drink and women and that if this was achieved then nothing more was wanted. However, Allah says in the Holy Quran that the purpose of man’s creation is to worship Him (51:57). In other words, man should try to acquire Divine attributes because the Arabic word al-‘ub u diyah also means to humble oneself and to accept the influence of another. It is, therefore, the height of naivety to think that man should only fulfil the purpose of his creation for fifty or sixty years and then spend an eternity eating and drinking and indulging his carnal desires. Similarly, Hell was