Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 123
123 If you knew that the fresh and certain Word of God is the true remedy for your diseases, you would not have rejected him who came with this blessing in the beginning of the century. Ah trifle rs ! no deed can rise to heaven until it proceeds out of certainty ; internal dross and impurities cannot be washed, nor spiritual diseases cured until the heart overflows with certainty. You boast of your Islam, but what you have is a lifeless routine of formal ceremonies, not the living organism, the essence of Islam. True Islam works a manifest transformation. A light is kindled in the heart which burns the low desires and worldly motives, and a new life is breathed into the Muslim of which you are not aware. All this comes after certainty, and certainty after the sure Word of God which comes from heaven. God is known through God and not by any other means. As you know those better who talk familiarly with you, so does a man advance in the knowledge of God through His word. The manner in which the Word of God comes, is in itself a clear indication of the Divine origin of the word. It often hap- pens that the servant of God prays to Him and immediately receives an answer from Him, and this occurs not once or twice but the process may continue to twenty, thirty or fifty times and sometimes a whole day or a whole night passes in this verbal intercourse, The answers are always in the most eloquent and sweet words and sometimes in words and languages quite un- known to the supplicant. Along with it there is an outpouring of heavenly signs and miracles, and a profusion of Divine favors and assistance. Is it possible that after all this continual verbal intercourse and evident signs, doubt should still lurk in the mind * as to the Divine origin of that word ? Not at all. On the other hand, this is the only means by which a man can see God even in this life, and to him the impenetrable mystery of the next