Life of Ahmad — Page 155
as ADDRESSES THE A RYA SAM A J 155 'Let his prayer be turned into sin. Let his days be few: and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless: and his wife a widow. Let his children be vagabonds and beg their bread: let them seek it also out of desolate places. Let the extortioner consume all that he hath: and let the stranger spoil his labour. Let there be no man to pity him: nor to have compassion upon his fatherless children. Let his posterity be destroyed: and in the next generation let his name be clean put out' (Ps. 109:7-13). 'And of thy goodness slay mine enemies, and destroy all them that vex my soul, for I am thy Servant' (Ps. 143:12). Jesus as too could not avoid imprecations. He says: 'Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation' (Matth. 23:14). Again he says: 'And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal' (Matth. 25:46). In Mark 9:42. Christ says: 'And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. '