Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 47
S IGN S OF T HE T RU E FAIT H 47 life, property, and honour; and if the affair of someone from any other people is entrusted to them, they seek to obliterate him altogether, abandoning [all sense of ] justice and compassion. That mercy, justice, and sympathy—which is the sublime excellence of human nature— disappears entirely from their disposition, and they are filled with an unholy beastliness due to overzealous bigotry. They do not know the true purpose of religion. The real ill-wishers of a faith and of a people are indeed those corrupt ones who have no regard for truth, divine cog- nition, or purity, and simply give the name ‘religion’ to selfish passions. They are ever engaged in idle quarrels, disputes, and vile talk, and the time which should be spent with God in solitude does not even occur in their dreams. They remain ever busy denigrating and reviling holy people while they are themselves filled with filth as a septic tank is filled with excrement. There is much babble on their tongues but their hearts are far removed from God; they are totally immersed in the vices of the world, yet they claim to be the reformers of the nation. But as is said: ہتفخ را ہتفخ ےک دنک �ب�ی�دار [How can a sleeping man awaken a sleeping man!] Such people can neither listen to anyone with God-fearing hearts, nor answer them with civility. They believe that there is nothing good in Islam and that all of it is objectionable. Strangely enough, they are quite content with this condition of theirs. Moreover, having inflicted harm upon someone of a different faith, they think they have accom- plished an act worthy of great reward or demonstrated great courage and manliness. But sadly, it is this bigotry that most people in this age identify as religion. I do not even consider the ordinary Muslims to be free from this evil habit. Indeed, they are more worthy of punishment in the eyes of God, for He has given them that religion whose name is Islam, the meaning of which God has Himself revealed in the Holy Quran as He says: