Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 108
108 morality independently of the heavenly gift granted through the holy ghost, puts forward a false claim. There is mud and dirt beneath- the surface of his water, which come up upon the sligh- test agitation caused by selfish passions. . Seek- assistance from God every moment that your water may be cleansed Irom this mud and purified, by means of the holy spirit. True and pure morality is a miracle of the righteous, in-which the evil-doers have no share, for those who are not devoted to God, are not granted power from on high, and it is impossible that they should at any time acquire high moral qualities. Purify your connections with God. Give up vain mockery, derision, vengeance, obscene language, avarice, lying, wickedness, evil glances, wordly-mindedness, vanity disdain, self-approbation and all other iniquities, and you will get the assistance of heaven which will invest you with true morals. Unless you get the power from above which can draw you up, and unless the holy spirit enters into you which gives life, you are weak and grouping in darkness- Up to that time you are dead and there is no life in you. In this state you can neither withstand any adversity, nor can you save yourselves from vanity and pride if you are in well-to-do circumstances, and are under the control of Satan and your carnal desires, Your deliverance cannot he effected except the holy spirit which comes from your God, should turn your faces to virtue and righteousness Make yourselves the sons of heaven, not the children of earth, and be the inheritors of light, not the lovers of darknees, that you may be safe from the ways, of Satan, for Satan comes out in the night and cannot venture to make his appearance i-n the day. He is the old thief who walks in darkness. (Vol. I, R. E. 1902. )