Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 95
95 should I declare the wonderful ness and might of God on every inhabited corner of the earth that all men may hear it ! What remedy should I apply that their ears may be opened to my voice ! If you will be God's people, know it for certain that Heshall be your God. You shall be. sleeping and God shall be awake for you. You shall be negligent of the enemy and God shall see him and frustrate his evil plans. You are not yet aware what power belongs to your God. Had you known it, no day would have ever found you grieving for this world. - If any one has vast treasures in his possessions, will he weep and cry or commit suicide for, the loss of farthing ? If you had been awre of the rich treasure that your God will perform all things for you and that He will be your refuge in every distress, you would not have been mad after the world. Your God is a precious treasure ; set great store by Him for He assists you in every step that you may take. With out God you are nothing and your means and plans are useless. Do not 'imitate the alien people who have put their whole trust in earthly means. Like the serpent that eats dust, they eat the dust of earthly means, and like the dogs and vultures which fall upon a rotten carcass they are tearing a carrion with their teeth. They are removed farthest off from God. They worship men and eat swine and drink wine like water. For their excessive trust in earthly means and ceasing to pray to God for help, they are dead. The heavenly spirit has quitted them as a pigeon quits its nest and takes flight. Their inwards are infected with the leprosy of worldworship which has consumed them from within. I do not forbid you to have recourse to the means which are % ' necessary to attain to an end, but I forbid you from becoming slaves to the means, from trusting in them alone and forgetting God who provides the means. Had you an eye, you would have seen that besides God all is naught. . You cannot stretch out