Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 445
445; - authorities? Did 1 you not say when you were being enlisted that you were ; turning Itafirs and were selling;your souls to the devil for a paltry sum of money. - For every little service you pestered your officers with petitions for lands- and titles. Indeed you did succeed, to some extent, in attaining the object for which you rendered services. -' You won titles, secured employments and got- jagirs and medals. In -short you reached- your goaK What other right have 'you on the strength of which you ask the British to grant amnesty to the Turks ? Did they not know that from the religious. point of view you hated the war and that you had enlisted merely to get posts or rewards or out of a desire to please the Government or to win titles and estates? There might be honourable exceptions but. such was the case with the majority of the people. And when they /knew that you were sacrificing your religious. beliefs (erroneous as they were) for the sake of worldly advantages, how could they be favourably impressed by the teachings of Islam and how could your co-operation with them bring them nearer to, it ? So it is wrong to say that you have tried co-operation and bave found it to be injurious. You have seen the evil result not of co-operation but of your. evil motives. . If you had visited the authorities in order ,to bring home to them the beauties of Islam, if you had testified to the wholesome influence of the teachings ol. Islam, by your honest and sincere dealings, had spoken to them about the excellences of Islam whenever such an opportunity offered itself and if instead of worshipping them you had drawn their. attention to the one trueGod,ithey were not so stonehearted as not be^moved. They are men after all and have the capacity to appreciate 'beauty. ; When their eyes. were, dazzled by seeing a prophet, will not: their eyes be filled, with light when they will see ttie face , of God Himself ?. When. J. esus. Christ fascinated