Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 98
conviction to you. How will he give you clean food who himself feeds upon a carcass? How can the blind show you the way? Every word of pure wisdom descends from heaven ; what do you seek from earthly people? Wisdom is the inheritance of those whose souls rise to heaven. H,ow can he bring you to conviction who has no conviction himself? But purity of heart is the first condition, truth and sincerity are the primary requirements, and then what you ask shall be given to you. Think not that the age of Divine Revelation is past and. that the holy spirit does not descend now as it used to do in time past. ,The law has finally been revealed to the world in the Holy Quran but the doors of. revelation are not closed, for revelation is the soul of the true faith. Religion not accompanied by revelation, is not a living system but a dead log. I tell you truly that every other door may Jbe closed but the door of revelation can never be closed. Open the windows of your hearts that it may enter them. You ; are removing; yourselves farther away from that bright sun because you close the windows through which its rays can find an entrance into your heart. Thou fool ! arise and open the windows of thy heart and the light shall enter into it of itself. Almighty God has not closed against you the doors of iworldly blessings but has opened them wider than they were in the past. Do you think that the ways\)f^heavp,nly blessings of which you feel the greater, neednoWj have been, stopped in this age? That cannot be, The doors of heavenly blessings are also opened more widely and clearly. When Almighty God has opened to you the door of ail the blessings of the former prophets, why do you not enter and welcome the precious boon ? Let your thirst be for that fountain and the water will flow to you. Cry like babe for that heavenly milk and it shall corne to you as it comes to the suckling. Make yourselves deserving of mercy that mercy may be shown to you. ;. Be sore