Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 152
152 AHMADIYY AT darkness left in you it will dispel all your light, and if you have any portion of arrogance, of hypocrisy, or self-love, or sloth, you are not something that would find acceptance. Do not deceive your- selves, with your few accomplishments, that whatever you had to do has been done, for God desires a complete revolution in your beings and He demands from you a death whereafter He would revive you. Hasten to make peace and forgive your brethren their defaults, for he who is not inclined to make peace with his brother is wicked and will be cut off because he is the cause of dissension. Give up your selfishness from every point of view and do not cultivate ill-will. Being in the right, humiliate yourselves as if you are in the wrong, so that you may be forgiven. Discard the fatness of your ego, for a fat person cannot enter through the door from which you have been called. How unfortunate is the person who does not accept that which has issued from the mouth of God and which I have set forth. If you desire that God should be pleased with you in heaven become to each other like real brothers. He is the greater among you who forgives his brother more, and unfortunate is the one who is obstinate and does not forgive. Such a one has no part in me. Be fearful of God's curse, for He is Holy and jealous. A vicious one cannot attain to nearness to God, nor an arrogant one, nor a wrongdoer, nor a dishonest one, nor one who is not jealous for the sake of His name, nor those who fall upon the world like dogs, and ants, and vultures, and find their whole comfort in the world. Every impure eye is far from Him, every impure heart is unaware of Him. He who is afire for His sake will be delivered from the Fire. He who weeps for His sake will laugh, and he who cuts asunder from the world for His sake will find Him. Become the friends of God with a true heart and full sincerity and complete eagerness, so that He should become your friend. Have mercy on your subordinates, and on your wives, and on your brethren. Become truly His, so that He should become yours. The world is full of calamities, one of which is the plague. Hold fast to God with sincerity so that He should safeguard you against all calamities. No calamity overtakes the earth till there is a command from heaven, and. no calamity is repelled till mercy descends from heaven. Wisdom demands that you should take hold of the root and not the branch. You are not prohibited from having recourse to proper devices and remedies, but you are forbidden to put your reliance