Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 21
21 ideas, which had entirely disappeared from the hearts of men. ' 5 'God has filled me with knowledge so that I should warn those who have gone astray and should lead those who dwell in darkness into Light. God has sent me to reform this sad plight and to lead mankind back to His pure Unity. To this end, I have explained all things to you. I have also been sent to give to the world a firmer faith and to demonstrate to the world the existence of God; for faith has withered and belief in the life hereafter has become a fable, and the conduct of man shows that his whole trust is placed in the world and in things material, and that he has no faith in God or the life to come. Men talk of God and of spirituality but their hearts are filled with the love of this world. Jesus as had found the Jews in the same state in which I find the world today, and just as lack of faith had driven love of God from the hearts of the Jews and had destroyed their morals, the world today ceased to love God, and I have been sent to restore truth and faith and to re- vive the love and fear of God in the hearts of men. This alone is the object of my existence. God has informed me that heaven shall again draw nigh to the earth after it had drawn itself away. So I have come to renew these things and have been sent for this purpose. ' 6 5 Lecture on Islam , p. 34. 6 Kit a bul Bariyya , pp. 253-256.