Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 410
410 ! V ! 1 ' :. I, ! ' - i \. exajted nank. ds it not simply grand to have one among us who enjoys 'close i communion with the Maker of. the earth and the heavens and receives ,His powerful and soothing word ? No earthly greatness can. compare with this blessing of God. The world of to-day can little realise the beauty, the charm, the fasci- nation, of having, a. prophet of God moving among the people- Imagine, if you can, dear readers, ,the pleasure of becoming the chosen people of God who is the King of kings and with whom> nothing is impossible. But no. The world of to-day is dead ^dead without any apparent signs of life. Ask us what is the charm of having a prophet, of God among us; for with us these feelings are not, dead We have seen a prophet of God with our own eyes, we have heard his words, we have lived with him, and have felt the pleasure of loving and being loved in return. Even now as I pen these words, his figure glides before my eyes and sends a thrill of pleasure through my frame. I see a srnile playing on his ; beautiful lips. By Heaven, I do see all this with my eyes. Great indeed was the bliss when Ahmad, the Prophet of God, t moved among us. He. talked to us of the great love of God and ! spoke to us kind words of encouragement and sympathy. We felt as if we lived in a new world. Under his holy influence we began to actually feel the presence of God among us. Ahmad watched over us like a father and we resigned ourselves to him like dutiful sons. But those happy days are gone. He lies buried under a heap of earth and we are left to fight our way alone through the hostile elements of the world- But to return to the subject. As I have already said, prophethood is the greatest favour of God in this world. Whenever God wants to make some people His chosen favourites, He opens the door of prophethood to them just as He did to the children of Israel- He first raised among the Israelites Moses who gave them a law. After Moses