The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 149
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 149 of the Imam of the righteous. . The ill-starred wicked one shoots his arrow upon the innocent one; it behoves heaven to rain down stones on the earth. . Before your eyes Islam has fallen into dust; how then will you excuse yourselves before God, O ye who live in luxury?. Disbelief is rampant in every direction like the forces of. Yazīd; and the true Faith is ill and helpless like Zain-ul-'Abidīn. . Men of wealth are occupied with their own enjoyments; keeping company, happy and laughing, with their graceful idols. . The divines are at loggerheads with each other day and night in their ego-driven exchanges; and the ascetics are entirely heedless of the needs of the faith. . Everyone has taken up a position for his mean self; so that the side of the faith is left defenceless, and every enemy has leaped out of his ambush. [Fat-he-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 41-45]. Call of the Promised Messiaha as. In the same way I too have been sent to put forth plainly the commandments of the Holy Qur'ān. The only difference is that the first Messiah was given to. Moses and this Messiah has been given to the 'like of. Moses. This much is beyond doubt. Yet I tell you truly that those who were revived by the Messiah as are dead. but he who will drink of the cup that has been bestowed upon me will never die. If there is anyone else who can also utter the life-giving words that I speak and proclaim such wisdom as I do, then you are at liberty to conclude that I have not come from God