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30 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad these people do not believe, they should at least realise that one day death will come and filth can never lead a person to salvation after death. When even a respectable man considers abusive language and invectives to be inappropriate, how can the worship of those who are guilty of this be accepted in the presence of God, the Holy? This is why I say that you should come to me and pay heed to me, so that you can see the truth. I desire to fully lift the veil of all obscurity. Repent sincerely and become a believer. I declare that I am the spiritual leader you await. Seek evidence of this from me. I do not consider the claim that Hazrat Ali ra was the immediate Successor of the Holy Prophet sa to be an appropriate or respectful comment. What am I to do with such a vile allegation? It is to remove such filthy proponents that God has sent me. One can observe that the Sunnis deem Shia narrations to be unsubstantiated. The Shias on the other hand, state that their own narrations can be traced directly to the Holy Prophet sa without any missing links in the chain of narration, and that they are reported by the Imams. In my view, however, these disputes are senseless. Now put aside these dead arguments and recognise the living Imam so that you may be granted the soul of life. If you are in search of God, then search for him who has been appointed by God. An individual who does not abandon filth should know that I am not blind. Am I not able to smell the stench of a hypocrite’s heart? I am able to see through a person immediately and can see what lies at the heart of their statement. So remember that the path that pleases God is the one that I have shown and this closer path is from God Himself. Now, if someone were to forsake a comfort- able mode of transport such as the train, and mount a lame, frail pony, they will not be able to reach their destination. Alas! These people forsake the words of God and die for the statements of such and such or another. Ask them who has transmitted these narrations. I say time and again that I call you to a path on which you must become a new Muslim once more and then Allah Almighty will reveal the actual truth to you Himself. I honestly say that if those Imams with whom these people are so infatu- ated were alive today, they would be averse to them. When I ignore these people, they say that ‘we raised such and such allegation for which no response was given. ’ Sometimes these people will then even publish announcements asserting the same. However, why should I care about such claims; my task is to do my duty. p. 26