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176 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Answer: Humanity’s relationship with God Almighty has fallen weak, the love of this world has become dominant and purity has diminished. God Almighty shall strengthen the relationship between man’s servitude to God (ubudiyyat) and divinity (uluhiyyat), and He shall restore lost purity. Love of this world shall turn cold. The Sign of a True Faith Question: When there are diverse religions, how should one recognise which religion is true and from God? Answer: This is no difficult matter. In our world, a distinction can be made between everything that is genuine and false. There is a clear difference between night and day. Then can a true Faith remain hidden? God is pure and He is loving and compassionate. Carnal passions that are classed as sin, such as fornication, prejudice, arrogance, and all those sins which gather in the heart and are then committed through the eyes or by other means, displease God. How then is it possible that one would not be able to rec- ognise that God desires to purify mankind and that He is displeased when they commit sin? Hence, a religion which gives a teaching that practically inculcates a nature within man to fear God, absorb His attributes, and grow in purity and love, and refrain from sin, will be deemed a religion from God. A religion from God is accompanied with living signs of its truth and these signs remain in every era. 1 The Crucifixion of the Messiah Question: What do you believe in relation to the crucifixion of the Messiah? Answer: I do not believe that he died on the cross. On the contrary, my inves- tigations have established that he was taken down from the cross alive and even the Messiah, peace be upon him, himself agrees with my view. One of the greatest miracles of the Messiah, peace be upon him, was that he would not die on the cross, because he had promised to show the sign of the Prophet Jonah as. Now, if it is accepted—as the Christians erroneously 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 5, no. 18, dated 17 May 1901, pp. 1-4 p. 160