Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 342
342 path of virtue, for you do not know by walking in which you will find acceptance in the sight of God. I bear to you these glad tidings that there is no one in the field to contest with you the nearness of God. Every nation is loving the world, and the world cares nothing for things which can make a man attain the pleasure of God. There is a unique opportunity, for those who with their whole heart and soul will enter this gate, to show their merits and find fav- our in the sight of God. Do not think that God will destroy you, for you are a seed of God's hand which is sown in the earth. Almighty God says that this seed will grow and bear flowers and fruit and its branches will extend on all sides and it will become a powerful. tree- Blessed is he who believes in the Word of God, and does not fear the intermediate trials, for trials must come that God may try you and see who is true in his promise of bai'at and who is false. He who stumbles at a trial cannot make the cause of God suffer any loss, and his evil fortune would take him to hell. Better it would have been for him if he had not been born. But all those will be victorious and the doors of Divine blessings will be opened on them who wait patiently till the end, though they are shaken with the earth- quakes of calamities and the storms of difficulties, and laughed at by the nations of the earth and hated and abhorred by the world. Addressing me Almighty God said that I should inform my followers that those who believe, and whose faith is not leavened with worldliness, nor tainted with hypocrisy or weakness of heart. , and whose faith does not fall short of any degree of obedience and submission these are they who are the chosen people of God, and these are they whose step is a step of sincerity. Listen, all ye that will listen ! What is that God de- sires of you. Only this that you should be entirely His, and