Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 40
40 quillity in your dispositions. Every Muslim desires to meet their end firmly attached to Islam and this is some- thing that lies suspended between hope and fear. This can only be possible if in a state of health we endeavour to inculcate unwavering steadfastness, strength, resolve and repose. Otherwise, in that fearful hour which confounds the senses and shakes a person’s beliefs and thoughts, it is difficult to maintain one’s strength and tranquillity. God Almighty states: 4 ۃ َ الْآخِر و َفِي َا ی ِ الدُّنْ ۃ َا ی َ الْح ابِتِ فِي َّ بِالْقَوْلِ الث نَ آ مَنُوا ی ِ ذ َّ ُ ال ہّٰلل ُ ا ُـثَبِّت ی Allah strengthens the believers with the word that is firmly established, both in the present life and in the Hereafter. It is this very unwavering strength of character that I have shown in the life of His Holiness as , the Vicegerent of Allah. He is the same man, indeed that complete man, who could not be affected even slightly by the fire of this world with all its afflictions and evils. He is the same believer whom the hellfire will address saying, O believer, pass on, for in the face of your divine light my fire is naught. O you, the chosen one of God, who car- ries paradise in both his pockets as the people of today carry watches, you are surely from God. Indeed, you are not from this foul and defiled world. For if this were not the case, how else can the world lay mountains of 4 Ibrahim , 14:28