The Ocean of Light — Page 133
133 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS their stomach is about to burst, and then they vomit it out on the floor. They have become far removed from truth and seeking it, so today they are neither like the flame nor the moth. They have forsaken the Islamic beliefs and the commandments of the beautiful and immaculate Prophet and have fallen like flies on a festering wound. When their filth is removed from them, their hearts grow constrained and then they have neither patience nor virtue. By God! They have obeyed their self and its power over them, and they have cultivated the habits of their lust and its Satan. They are routine visitors to the gates of the wealthy, the well off, the fortunate and the landowner. There are many among them who are drawn to the morning wine instead of the morning prayer and towards the wine flutes in the evening instead of the ‘Ish a prayer. Instead of reciting Shar h -ul-Wiq a yah and Hid a yah , 1 they 1 There was a preacher in our country who people thought was one of the virtuous and the monotheists. By sheer coincidence a person