Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 313
313 hasty in rejecting a Messenger of God and to take in an evil light of all his doings and words? What sign there is which God has not manifested, and what argument which has not been appealed to, bub you rejected every proof, and with boldness treated the commandments of God as naught, To whom should I liken this cunning generation. It is like the crafty man who in open daylight shuts his eyes and says 'where is the sun. ' Thou self deceived man, open thine own eyes first and then thou shalt see the sun. : It is easy to call a Messenger of God an heretic, but difficult to follow him in the subtle ways of faith, easy to call him a Dajjal but hard to enter the strait gate of his teaching. Every one who says that he does not care for the Promised Messiah ^ does not care for his faith, and sets at 1 naught the true purity of life, real salvation and living faith. If such men could take a just view of things, they would find that without the living and perfect certainty which is granted from heaven through the holy prophets and messengers of God, their prayers are only lifeless ceremonies and their fasting mere starvation. '' (Vol. Ill K. B, 1904). A Reply to those who demand Miracles or Worldly Advantages. The Best Criterion to recognise a true Prophet of God "Those who impose such conditions remain devoid of true faith. The faith which Almighty God loves best is the faith of Abu Bakr, the faith which seeks no signs. Abu Bakr, did not request the Holy Prophet to work any miracle. It was sufficient for him that Arabia sorely felt the need of a Reformer, and the righteousness and heavenly morals of the Holy Prophet were the greatest of all miracles. No sooner he heard the claim of the Holy Prophet than he believed in its truth. Men of Abu Bakr's type need no signs. Those who say that they will not