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32 at best, can take no more than a handful. Under this heading therefore there remains for me now only this prayer: “O God, rain down Thy blessings on Muhammad, on the descendants of Muhammad, and on Thy blessings and peace on them all. And O ye Believers, send blessings on them on your own behalf as well. ” KINDNESS AND COMPASSION FOR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS By the grace of God, I now come to the third part of this subject, which pertains to the kindness and compassion which the Promised Messiah had for all human beings and God’s creatures. I selected these three headings for dealing with this subject namely, Love of god, Love for the Holy Prophet, and kindness and compassion for fellow human beings, because these aspects represent the essence of our faith; and because they form the central point of the belief mind and character of every true Muslim. In fact, even for judging the character and personality, and the spiritual eminence of a Muslim appointed by god to any spiritual eminence of a Muslim appointed by God to any spiritual mission, we have no better criterion than this that he should have a deep and strong graft with the Supreme Being, who is the source of all life; secondly, love for the person and mission of the Apostle of Allah should form the basis of all his spiritual experience and endeavor; and, thirdly, his heart should be brimful of kindness and compassion for all creatures of God. There three aspects are the unfailing characteristics of all those people who attain to perfection in the ways of piety and virtue. 1 Pertaining to the Promised Messiah’s kindness and compassion for fellow human beings, the first thing which comes to my mind is the pledge he took, under Divine command, from everyone who accepted his claim and joined the Movement- the pledge of bai’at which forms the bedrock foundation of the entire structure of the Ahmadiyya Movement. This pledge has ten clauses, and is well