Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 435
435 need of wortdly s posvei5,nortdoe8 the Muslim hunger for jfc. ;. The beauty of Islam lies in its excellences and the power of the Mus- lim lies in his heart,. Hence the kingdom of this world is not essential for Islam or for the Muslirn,. The good things of. this life are J ike servants to him. which present themselves Jbefore him at his call and they Jreep. away from him only until Islam has proved to the world ifcsj intrinsic worth and the Muslim the strength of his faith. Hence there need be no anxiety about these things if Islam and the Muslims do exist. The real thing to'feel anxious abputfis tbatjslam should disappear,! that truth should be obliteratedjjtha-t faith should Jbe. lost^and that thelight which showed the face. of > the; Belayed: One should. go out. ; A Muslim does not -sorrow for the world ; he sorrows ;for his religion. The forgetting of one precept of Islam is to him more painful than the cessation* oj the ; shouts of. - victory? an< ^ : the - closing of one door of access to 0od causes him far. greater,. uneasiness than the turning of all the successes of his 1 ifce into failures. If the efface- ment of faith: and )the weakening : of Islam cause; a person no pain, it is: a proof, of thejfact'that his heart is full of the, love of this world and that he has forsaken hjsiGod. And such inxieed is the case of the, present day Musjsalmans. The edifice -of Islam was completely demolished ;before tbeir ey es,. b. u tithe sight ;caus. ed no pain to their hearts; The so called Mussalmans abandoned the commandments; of Islam one by one but their heart did not ache, The true principles of Islam were forsaken, nay they were mocked at, but the Mus,salrnans instead of feeling any pain only enjoyed the fun*. In short, there is ; no form of disgracing the religion but the Mussalmans-have been, guilty of it, and that in a joyous spirit, -with cheer on their laces and with a s_rnile on. their lips, until Islam became like a dead body from which all Jile had departed^ Qr like a ruined building, the very debris qf which was