Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 339
339 tribulations which must come, yet it is necessary that the world should hold all that is in it until all these prophecies are fulfil- led. I have appeared as the power of God upon earth and I am an embodiment of Divine power, and after me will come others who will be manifestations of His second power. Wait, therefore, for the manifestation of this second power and pray for it in one body. It is necessary that the righteous in every country should pray together, so that the other power may descend from heaven and show you how powerful is the Lord your God. Look upon your death as at the door, for you do not know when the hour may come. It is necessary that the righteous from among my followers, whose spirits are, free from impurities should take people into discipleship. in my name. * Almighty God wills it that all those who inhabit different parts of the earth, the Occidentals and the Orientals, all who possess a good nature, should be drawn to a belief in the Unity of God and thus collected in one faith. This is the object of God for which I have been sent to the world. Follow this object, therefore, but with meekness, high morals and incessant prayers, and until one stands up with the holy spirit from God, work all in agree- ment after me. * Such men will be selected by the agreement of the faith- ful. Any one, therefore, about whom forty faithful men should agree that he is fit to accept baiat in rny name from other people shall be entitled to do so, and he ought to make him- self an example for others. . Almighty God has informed me that he would raise for my followers a man from my own offspring whom He would particularly favour with His nearness and revelation, and truth would prosper by him and many people would accept the truth. Wait -therefore, for