Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 120
120 with an extraordinary heavenly magnetism is impossible without certainty. To rise above the earth (i. e. , materialism) and soar to the higher regions (of spirituality) is impossible without certainty. To fear God as one ought to fear to attain to true. righteousness, is impossible without certainty. To abide by the minutest rules of piety, and to be sincere in one's deeds, is impossible without certainty. To consider God as the most precious treasure which the soul of man can possess, to spurn the riches and greatness of this world and to have no desire of temporal honor and regal pomp, is impossible without certainty. Let those who call them- selves Muhammadans, answer how they can get out of the dark- ness of doubt and reach the light of certainty. There is only one way, and that is the Word of God as is indicated in the verse ; yJ ) ^J ) ui**ilaJ ) ^* ^ ; io " Bringeth them out of darkness into light/'*. Now that thirteen, hundred years have passed since the dawn of prophecy in Arabia, and this age has not witnessed the shinning heavenly signs and heavenly light with which the Holy Quran came into the world^ and Christianity, Aryanism and Atheism with all the forces of evil are attacking, tooth and nail, the Word of God, His prophet and faith, and the Muhammadans have nothing in hand but a few written leaves to whose miracul- ous power and efficacy they are utter strangers, and the miracles that are related in support of their truth, are mere tales of wonders abounding in the history of every sect which under these circumstances is the way by which the top of the high minaret of certainty can be gained ? How can the enemy be convinced that Islam can point to methods, unknown to other religions, by which a man may attain to certainty in his belief of God and be freed from the trammels of sin ? What are the arguments oil whose strength a seeker after truth ought to give it a preference