Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 109
109 that a year of gambling in the past would be nothing compared with a single day of gambling today. Many forms of insurance, such as life, fire, theft, etc. , that were inconceivable to the people of the past, have become a necessity today. Another great moral change predicted by the Holy Prophet s as for the time is the disappearance of the ‘pure self ’. 29 People have interpreted this in many ways, but it quite clearly means that it will become difficult to find righteous people. We can see today that, with the exception of the Promised Messiah’s followers, it is hard to find righteous people anywhere in the world. Time was when thousands of godly people could be seen among the Muslims at a time, but today, in our hour of need, it is hard to find even one such person. No doubt we have our hereditary saints, scholars and religious leaders with millions of followers, but not one of them is truly righteous or has a true connection with God. Repeating holy words and incantations is not a sign of righteousness. The sign of inner purity is absorption in the love of God which should result in God expressing His love for them, coming to their aid, fulfilling their needs, revealing the secrets of His Word to them, causing a torrent of Divine knowledge to flow in their hearts, removing the tribulations of Islam through them, and curing them of their real ailments. Today no such person is to be found among the whole tribe of doctors, mystics, saints, savants, and scholars. The world has done away with righteousness and instead follows ‘the self that incites to evil’. Another sign pointed out by the Holy Prophet s as is the disap - pearance of honesty and integrity. Hadrat ‘Al i ra reports that one sign of the eve of Doomsday will be the loss of honesty. 30 This fact