Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 356
356 whom you invite to a heavenly life, for how can your invitation be true if you do them evil in this transitory life. Obey all orders of your God with fear of heart, for you will be questioned as to them. Let your prayers be full of humble supplications to God that He may draw you to Himself and purify your hearts. Man is a weak creature and he cannot get rid of evil except with Divine help. : He has not the power to free himself from the bondage of sin, except power be granted to him from heaven. The utterance of a few words or a formal subscription to the faith, does not make you a true Muslim. Islam requires you to bow down in complete submission to the Divine threshold, so as to give a preference to God and His commandments over everything else. My dear friends ! know it for certain that time has reached its end and a great change has taken place in the world. Do not deceive yourselves, with forms and appearances, but be perfect in the righteousness of your hearts. Make the Quran your guide and obtain light from it in every religious matter. Bat at the same time do not discard the traditions of the Holy Prophet as w. aste, for they are of great importance and much labour has been spent in their collection. But if a tradition contradicts the Qu- ran it does not proceed from a pure source and must be thrown away. The Quran has been handed, down to you with special Divine protection, therefore value the pure Word of God and give it precedence over everything else, for in this lies righteous- ness and uprightness of heart. It should be borne in mind that the efficacy of a preacher's words depends upon the sanctity and Divine knowledge which he is known to possess. Now Almighty God has furnished thou- sands of arguments for the truth of rny claim so that all men may know that the person who invites them to the path of righteousness, possesses the highest Divine knowledge.