Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 12
12 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and no meaning. Therefore, these people are insolently audacious and brazen. Furthermore, since this sect ultimately reinforces freedom from divine law and a way of permissiveness, this sect continues to grow. The poison of this sect has pervaded large parts in the districts of Lahore, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur. Reflect and look at the outcomes; this is promoting nothing but a way of permissiveness. These people do not adhere to the injunctions of Prayer and fasting, nor can they, for they are devoid of righteousness, which is the very foundation of salvation and underpins the importance of deeds. Some of them are, more or less, atheists. Therefore, I say that this too is a grave trial from among the various forms of disorder that are prevalent at this time, which has let loose an ocean of transgres - sion and vice, and flung open the gates of permissiveness and atheism. If the hon - ourable companions, may Allah be pleased with all of them, had been alive today, they would look at these people with astonishment, wondering from where this so-called Islam has come. It does not behove man under any circumstances to overstep the bounds of human nature. How true it is that: زبدہوورعوکشودصقوافص ٰیفطصم ونکیلزفیماےئرب Do abandon worldly pleasures and seek to incul - cate piety, sincerity and devotion; But do not step ahead of Mustafa (the Holy Prophet sas ). In short, this sect may be likened to tuberculosis. There was a man in Allahabad and he corresponded with me. After letters were sent back and forth in one or two exchanges, he began to use curse words and obscenities. Purification of the inner self is a far off thing for these people; even the general state of their morality is not very good. The fundamental reason is that exemplary morals and purifica - tion of the soul hinges upon righteousness and fear of God, and it is unfortunate that these people possess neither, because they consider their own beings to be God. As such, when they relinquish their human nature and assume for them - selves the seat of God, and when it is a proven fact that they cannot become God, all that is left for one who abandons their human nature is to become Satan. This is why such people are hastily incensed. The more one investigates their state of affairs, the more it becomes clear that they do not adhere to Islam. I have already mentioned that they do not pray or fast, because they have no fear of God, and p. 287 ِْیْ ْن َاَْعَْظَُمُ َشَْاْ ْا َ ِم ِْْی ْاْن ُسُْبَْحَ َِْتِْی ْب َاَُہللُ ِفِْیْ ُجُ ُشُُشُُشُُشُ ِ ِ