Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 234
234 with it whenever they calumniated their prophets. The inten- sity found in the meaning of the word Taoon, as stated above, indicates that it does not overtake people afc an early stage of calumny but only when the heavenly Messenger is abused and persecuted intolerably and when the. slanderers exceed all limits. Therefore nothing but an acceptance of the Messenger of heaven can check it in its onward march. My message to my countrymen is that if they have a mind to be delivered from the sore distresses wliich afflict them, they should accept the Messiah with a sincere heart. This is a sure and certain remedy,. An inferior remedy is that people should at least refrain from rejecting and abusing V him, and that their hearts should be impressed with his greatness and dignity. (Vol. I E. R. 1902. )