Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 239
The Spiritual Revolution 239 fice their lives. They never boast or convey arrogance and haughtiness. They are most humble and meek to one and all and establish high standards of humility and modesty. The essence of success of the divinely raised communities is that the more the humble and meek people demonstrate excellent examples of submission, the greater is the pace of their progress. As I said earlier such are the people who believe in Prophets. When such hearts come in contact with Prophets they are polished even more. If those who are humble have to give up their place for others, and to sit in an inferior place, they would prefer it. However, the ones who are divinely appointed have the insight to identify them. To reward such humbleness and in order to educate their community that among them the meek and the humble have the greatest status, they remove such people from the lowly place and give them the honour to sit next to them and at meal times they ask them over and offer them food from their own plates. Prophets value them in this way because it is due to their humbleness that they come into faith quickly and completely adhere to the religious teachings. The Promised Messiah as said: The poor are not arrogant and accept the truth with complete humility. I tell you the truth there are very few among the wealthy who could acquire even a little of the grace that the poor acquire perfectly. ( Iz a la-e-’Auh a m , R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 3, p. 537) This is the reason why he declared humility a condition to join the Community, so that one could properly understand