Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 126
126 ascetic/ism and assumed piety and a revealing of the face of God. The religion that does not take a man to the fountain-head of cer- o * tainty, does not deserve to be so called ; it is a sink of corruption, nay, the very hell. The spring of life flows from certainty, and the wings which enable a man to soar to heaven grow out of certainty. Try that you may see the God into whose presence you must at last go. Certainty is the vehicle which can take you to God. It is swifter than lightning and can take you to the remote goal in the twinkling of an eye. Seekers alter righteousness ! if you wish to walk upon earth with pure and humble hearts, if you desire that angels may shake hands with you, seek the path of certainty. If you have not attained that stage, follow the person who has seen God with the eye of certainty. And if you still question me as to how a person can see God with the eye of certainty, I shall give the answer, whether you attend to it or not, that the only means of 'obtaining certainty is the living Word of God, which has within it, and is accompanied with, living signs. When it comes from heaven, it raises the dead from their graves. You have eyes and yet these are of no avail without the shining lustre of the glorious orb of light. Similarly your own conjectures cannot lead you to a true knowledge of God. The faint light of reason also stand in need of the light of a sun which sheds its light from heaven upon earth, and this is the living Word of God. Without His Word the knowledge of God is imperfect. The word is a go-between in God and man. When it descends, the light of God comes with it. It takes to heaven the person upon whom ib descends with all its attendant signs, its full glory and the Divine power and majesty. In short to reach God, there is Only one way and that is the Word of God. Of all the gifts of God, the most precipus is the gift of His sure and certain word revealed to a man. Through the word a