Lecture Sialkot — Page 49
L ECTURE S IALKOT 49 Him alone, to forsake the love of everything else for His love, and to surrender his own will to the Will of God. The Holy Quran illustrates this with a wonderful example: No believer can achieve perfection until he has partaken of two elixirs. The first is the elixir that cools down the love of sin, named by the Holy Quran as the 'Elixir of Camphor', and the second elixir, which fills the heart with the love of God, is described by the Holy Quran as the 'Elixir of Ginger'. It is a pity that the Christians and the Aryas did not follow this path. The Aryas are of the view that, whether or not one repents, sin has to be punished by the torment of countless cycles of transmigration. The Christian concept of deliverance from sin has already been described above. Both these groups have di- gressed from the truth. They have left behind the door they were supposed to enter and have strayed far into the wilderness. So far I have addressed the Aryas, but the state of Christians, who are trying hard to spread their religion all over the world, is far more deplorable. Today, while the Aryas are trying somehow to get rid of their old polytheistic creed of creature-worship, the Chris- tians, on the contrary, are trying to convert, not only themselves, but the entire world to creature-worship. In an arbitrary and authoritarian manner they project