Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 10
10 the other far removed from rectitude and drowned in error. Two clerics in the same city or village conduct themselves as if they are supporters and advocates of separate religions altogether. Backs have been turned to the Book of God Almighty and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet sa , while faces are fully turned towards carnal desire, ill tradition and habit. Day and night, the peo- ple are bent upon accusing one another of disbelief and sin as dogs brawl with one another. The enjoyments of the world and worldly position has become the centre of all their ambitions. They sport with the word of God Almighty and the Sunnah of Muhammad sa , the Best of Creation, as children play with toys. In addition to this, grave discord has consumed the Wahabis and Muqallids, the Shias and Sunnis. The raft- er which supports the roof has broken, as it were, and this heavy roof might well-nigh collapse to crush them all and dispatch them to the next life. The time now calls for a hero who would do away with these divisions. The leaders of the Muqallids advo- cate for their own cause while the Wahabis support their own point of view. Those who have ventured to remove these oppositions may be described perfectly by the following: