Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 99
99 vexed that comfort in ay be given to you. Lament and cry that one may take you by the hand. Difficult and strait is the path which is the path of God, but it is made easy for those who fall into the bottomless pit ready to die. They decide to enter into fire and to burn in it for the sake of their beloved one. They actually thrust themselves into that fire and, to their surprise, find it the very paradise. It is in reference to this that Almighty God has said -^j***' "'fi b*&* ^ ^ j ^ ^ * ^ * ) )j $ ) ^ & 1 5 ' (p*/) ^V **' ^/*^) ); & 3 ) y") &* j" 1 ) ** Ye that are wicked and ye that are righteous, there is not one of you who shall not pass over hell-fire, but those who go down into it for fear of God shall be delivered while those who walk on it only in obedience to their sensual passions, shall be consumed in it. This is a settled decree of God. " Blessed are they who struggle with their passions for fear of God, but woe to them who fight with God in blind obedience to their carnal desires. He who puts aside the com- mandments of God for his own passions, shall never enter into heaven. Try therefore, that not a jot or a tittle of the holy Quran should bear witness against you, lest you may have to answer it, for the slightest iniquity shall bring punishment upon you. The days of your life are few and short, and your work is yet unfinished. Walk fast for the day is going away and the evening is nigh. Consider well what shall be required of you; lest you leave something undone and find yourselves undone at last ; lest the thing you are going to offer, should be impure or counterfeit and unworthy of being presented- I am told that some of you do not admit the authority of traditions. Such men are in error. My teaching is that three things have been given you for guidance, the Holy Quran, the sunnat (usage) and the kadis (tradition). The Quran inculcates