Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 89
89 Malfuzat – Volume IV An Important Task of the Promised Messiah As for those who remain in my company for some time with a pure heart, with sincerity, good intentions, pure resolve, and with an honest desire to find the truth, I can proclaim with certainty that God Almighty will dispel their inner darkness by the light of His manifestations. They will develop a new insight and a renewed certainty in God, and these are the means which save a person from the poisonous effect of sin and bestows upon them an antidotal power. This is the service with which I have been entrusted. This is the one need which people also recognise—to free themselves from the shackles and fetters of sin—that I desire to address. This is the way that the people will find deliverance. Therefore, if someone forsakes the tales and stories, and abandons the fanciful and imaginary method which suggests that suicide can deliver people from sin, and if they remain here with honesty and sincerity, they will behold God. It is seeing God which is the very thing that brings about a death to sin. Otherwise, to rejoice over the fact that one is free from a specific sin, or some other vice cannot make one worthy of true salvation. This would be no different than one person who dies by consuming strychnine, while another perishes by taking arsenic, or because of almond poisoning. I have no reason to engage at this moment in a lengthy discussion regarding the manner of salvation proposed by the Christians or in relation to the practice of any other religion, for experience and observation themselves testify to the matter. I wish only to put forth the method of which God has given me understanding and the manner that He has disclosed to me. Therefore, the manner in which to save oneself from sin, which has been dis - closed to me, is the same as what the holy community of the Prophets, present - ed to the world in their respective ages. One can only fully triumph over their human passions, and Satan, along with his progeny, can only be vanquished when the illuminating certainty descends on a person’s heart that God exists. One must know that sin is diametrically opposed to His holy attributes, and that His wrath descends upon the sinners, and that the pious are delivered from every affliction through His grace and mercy. This divine insight and certainty cannot be devel - oped until one remains in the company of those people who possess an extremely close relationship with God Almighty; these are people who receive from God and convey to the people. So this is the purpose with which I have come to the world, and this is what I have explained to you. Now you ought to reflect over this p. 362