Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 296
296 object of man's life has been described in the Holy Quran to be the worship of Grod, and it is impossible that man should have been so created as to feel a pleasure in everything except in that which was the aim of his life. Nay, it is here that he should experience the highest bliss, and if he does not, he should clearly understand that some morbidity affects his spiritual conditions and he ought to seek for the proper remedy. We see it in our every- day experience that the things that have been created for the benefit of man possess a certain attrac- tion for him, Are not delicious articles of food and drink plea- sant to the taste, beautiful objects and sights and charming sce- nes pleasing to the eye, and sweet sounds and soft and melodi- ous tones pleasing to the ear? What other argument is needed to show that the observance of religious duties must afford plea- sure and enjoyment to a man ? Again, man and woman were created as helpmates to each other, and the one was consorted with the other not by compulsion but by means of attraction placed in each for the other. The coupling of the man and the woman with the object of procreation has thus been brought about by the pleasure which each finds in the union, and the pur- pose could hardly have been accomplished without it. The enjoyment which is found in the sexual connection and which is the incentive to men to propagate their kind, has such a powerful attraction that ignorant men have taken it to be the object of the sexual connection and have lost sight of tbe real object, viz. , procreation. The object with which the close con- nection between man and woman was brought about was no doubt the propagation of their kind, and the enjoyment found in the connection was only a step to the attainment of that object- The true and eternal union which affords the hignest bliss is the union of man with God. It gives a pleasure which is far