Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 182
C ONDITIONS OF B AI ‘ AT AND R ESPONSIBILITIES OF AN A H MAD I 182 That is: Tell them if you love God, come follow me so that God may love you too. Indeed, a one-sided claim of love is totally false and absurd. When man honestly loves God, then God also loves him. Then an acceptance for him is spread in the world. A sincere love for him is produced in the hearts of thousands; a force of attraction is granted to him, and a light is given to him that always stays with him. When a person loves Allah with a sincere heart and adopts Him over the whole world and to him nothing is left of the majesty and dignity of anything besides Allah—instead he considers all these others to be worse than a dead worm—then Allah Who sees his heart descends upon it with a weighty manifestation. Just as a refined mirror put in front of the sun provides such a perfect reflection of the sun that it can be said, figuratively and meta- phorically, that the same sun that is in the sky is also present in the mirror, likewise Allah descends on such a heart and makes it His throne. This is the purpose for which man was created. ( H aq i qat-ul-Wa hy i , R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 22, pp. 64–65) As a result of the love and the affection the Promised Messiah as had for the Holy Prophet sa , Allah the Almighty made the heart of the Promised Messiah as a part of His throne. Allah will continue to descend upon the hearts in the future also according to their respective statures. But now the claim of the love for the Holy Prophet sa , the claim of his perfect obedience, will prove true only when the bond of love and 96. ( A l-e-‘Imr a n , 3:32)