Life of Ahmad — Page 731
as A SERMON REVEALED 731 who is neither an enemy nor a miser. Is it not time for Allah to be merciful to His creatures? Should He not remove the evils and satisfy the intense thirst of the people with a spring shower? Is the flood of evil not at its highest? Are not the skirts of ignorance far stretched out? Is not the whole of the earth corrupted? Has not Satan been pleased with his followers so as to thank them? Be ye grateful to Allah who has remembered you and your faith. And He has not allowed it to be currupted. He has watched over your harvests and your fields with their young grass. He has sent down rain and completed its measure. And He has raised His Messiah for the removal of evil; and His Mahdi for the good of the people. He has brought you to a time the Imam whereof is one from among you, while it was not so before. '