Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 437
437 the leasts They -forget the saying of the Holy Prophet the Prophet whom they : profess to love so much and to whose regard and b6nour : they ascribe their present perturbance which is to the eiffeet that if one succeeds in guiding even a single person to truth, it is more blessed than the possession of beards of animals. . But in the case of the present day Mussalmans, to say nothing ofrguiding any person to truth, they made no attempt even to save tbeir own co-religionists from being led astray. They are now so much, troubled at the loss of one or two territories but they lost hundreds of thousands of spiritual 1-ands without feel-- ing any pain. Would that their eyes had opened even now and they had realised r that it is not the love of God and His Holy ? Prophet butrthe love of this world-winch had filled their hearts! ^To-day college students are-being persuaded. to leave their. eolle-. ges and apparently great sympathyjs b,ein. g. shown towards them^ but why were they neglected before ? Now when Advocates of, non-co-operation wished to boycott the colleges,,. they firs ; t -oi> all thought) of the students and their "love" for them drew them to college. halls. But- when they openly denied the existence i ' of Grod, had abandoned prayers and thought fasting to. be a '. '. V. i penalty and the pilgrimage to be a; waste of time and money why did not their love for them burst forth into activity and why did it not occur to them to argue with them and lead them to the right path ? Was it not. so because at that time they were of no service to them and now they can be of great help to them in. their propoganda?. . I know that this /writing of ;mine will be resented by the advocates of non-co-operation and thei-r. duped ones will also express their anger. thereat, but my sympathy for them compels me to tell'them the truth. . Truth is an extremely bitter thing ,and it ; is not unoften that. a man is- afraid to speak the truth even