So Said The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 63
Quran says: wa ammassaa-i-la fala tanhar: you should not scold the beggar. There is no indication here as to what kind of beggar should not be scolded-and what kind of beggar may be scolded. You should remember never to scold a beggar, for doing so, sows the seed of an immorality. Good morals demand that one should not hastily get annoyed with the beggar. It is the satan who wants to keep you away from virtue by making you annoyed with the beggar; he (the satan) wants to make you the inheritor of evil. You should ponder over this fact: do one good deed, and you will find that you are enabled to follow it with an- other good deed. Likewise, if you do one evil deed, you will follow it with another evil deed. It is just as one thing absorbs another. This process of absorbing one thing by the other is to be found in all the actions of the man; so God has destined it to be. When a man will show kindness to a beggar and will thus make a moral charity' he will be able to do another good deed-and that is that he will be able to give something to the beggar. Good morals are key to other good deeds, and those who do not keep their morals right, ultimately become devoid of good deeds altogether. (Malfoozat, Vol. II, p. 75) MORALS OF THE HOLY PROPHET T. !:J. e honour of the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam, is greater than the honour of all others. It was he who revived the world once again. So far as Arabia is concerned, adultery, drunkenness and warring with one another were their main features. They had shed the blood of the rights of the fellow-beings (i. e. they had put an end to the ide!i that they 63