Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 443
44$:- for tb-e g'lory of' Islam and -for, r thte: advancement jof its ^causef You did flatter them? but you did did pay visits to them and did express your love for them, but did you do so in order to win : their hearts for Islam?. . . You visited them to. get from: them certificates and testimonials of their ; pleasure* You did ; express your love for them, but it was because you were ) thirsty : fbr their kind lo. oks. Yciu regarded their smile as the -key to all barred doors and you thought their looks to be more blessed then -the; looks of God. You did rubjyour ;foreh : eads:for hours :and hours nay, you rub- bed yur nose to an -extent that the nose itself. was mbbed out of existence; 'but by : so doing youionly pro v. ed. that your profession : to be the worshippers of the One: iGod was only a lip-profession and: that really you were worshippers of lucre and you do not refrain from doing even the meanest. things for the sake of worldly gain and that you are evenrready to for- sake : God for the sake of money. You received education in their colleges and learnt their, language, but. did you learn it with a view to deliver to them the message; of truth. in their own language, to try to remove the 'doubts that :lurked in their minds, to apprise them of the beauties of Islam and to co. nvey to them the message of the Holy Prophet?. No,; you learnt the language so that you might be able to. beg their favours in more eloquent form and might sing their praises in their own tongue. Why did you learn their language? Did you do so to serve the Holy Quran ? No, on the contrary, after- learning. trie/language you forgot the Word of; God; and- you turned your back on God's book. Berkeley, Kant^and SpencerLbecameiyQur favourites. Instead of employing the language for 'the propagation of. -the sayings of the Holy Prophet (may peacei. . aiid:th. eb]essings of God be upon him!),