Signs of the Living God — Page 30
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 30 and whose souls anxiously desire to prostrate before His threshold come forward, for the time of the fulfilment of God’s desire has drawn close and the hour for the realization of H is longing is at hand. Is not the fact that the followers of all religions are presently deprived of the supreme blessings which, by their own admission attended their forbears , enough to open the eyes of the wise. The followers of all faiths admit that their elders were recipients of divine revelation while they themselves are not. Are there no pious souls out there who would ponder why the door to revelation has been closed after having been open before? Surely this demonstrates that these religions have strayed from the guidance on which they were once set upon? How unfortunate that they blame God for these circumstances rather than confess their own shortcomings. They say God Almighty has closed the door to divine revelation without reason. People today act with the same piety as they did in the past, but God does not grant them the gift of revelation. However , they have failed to understand that God Almighty is ever ready to confer His bounties, and only their own abandonment of the path of divine pleasure has deprived them of these blessings. God speaks today