Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 481
479 Carelessness towards the Warnings. Their account draws near to the people, yet in carelessness they turn aside. There comes not to them a fresh reminder from their Lord but they only hear it to make a play of it ; Their hearts set on lusts. XXI : 1, 2, 3. And the sure promise draws near; and lo ! they stare* the eyes of those who believe not, (and they shall say) woe to us ! we have been in carelessness of this ! Ay we have been wrong doers. XXI : 97. And when Our signs are recited to him, he turns back dis- dainfully, as though he heard them not as if in his two ears were heaviness; so give him glad tidings of a painful torment. XXXI: 6, And it shall be said, ''Today We will forget as you did for- get the meeting of this your Day, and your abode is the Fire and ye shall have no helpers. That is for that ye took the signs of God for a jest, and the life of this world deceived you, so this Day they shall not be taken out of it and they shall not be received back into favor. XLY:33 34. Fate of those who disbelieve the Divine Messengers* Verily God has cursed the disbelievers and has prepared for them the blaze, For ever therein and ever; they shall not find a patron nor a helper. On the Day their faces shall be rolled in the Fire: they shall say, would that we had obeyed the Apostle and they shall say, our Lord, Verily we have obeyed our chiefs and our great men and they have led us astray from the way. XXXIII: 6466.