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100 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad are blindly following their parents. However, those who truly possess good mor - als and moral courage do not care about these things at all; their only desire is to embrace what is right. There are two faculties which are especially powerful in childhood. Firstly, as a child, one absorbs everything; secondly one’s memory is strong. A child never asks for evidence as to why something is so. However, true bravery is to become ready at once to forsake such things which a person, as if, drinks with their moth - er’s milk when it becomes clear that they are devoid of the quality and nature that is the hallmark of truth and divine insight. The king of all faculties is equity. If a person lacks this faculty, they are necessarily deprived of everything else. Man has not been sent to the world to gather a store of falsehood; instead he ought to recognise and follow the truth. Since there is falsehood in the world as well, and it is not surprising that the slaves of falsehood desire to portray it to the world as though it were even more brilliant than the truth, a wise person must not be deceived. A person must scrutinise the truth fully and then accept it. In my view, all the religions of the world appear to me as though they were in one arena, and every religion seeks to prove that it is true. However, I say that one ought to see which of them possess spirituality and which of them are accompa - nied by signs of divine succour, and which religion wields the power to destroy the worm of sin. I say to you on the basis of my own experience that true cogni - sance of God Almighty, which by its heat, destroys the worm of sin, can only be attained in Islam. It can never be possible to kill this worm with the blood of man. In fact, blood will only attract more insects. Therefore, blood is definitely not a means for the forgiveness of sin. The fundamental basis for salvation and purity is what I have explained to you and the entire world ought to search for this alone. ” By the time that the Promised Messiah as had concluded his address, they had arrived at the bridge at the river, which is approximately 4 miles from Qadian. Upon reaching this juncture, Mr Dickson took leave of His Holiness as and departed for Batala. His Holiness as then turned back—Editor. 1 Preaching to One’s Relatives On the way back from his walk, the Promised Messiah as addressed Nawab Sahib and said: “I hear that every so often, you preach to the men and women of your family. This is excellent. One should always be concerned about conveying the 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 6, no. 2, dated 17 January 1902, p. 3 p. 373 َِْيَْن َب ََْر ُق َ ََْكَ ْل َّت َ ِر ِْيْ ْش َ ِع ْ ُر ِ ِّذ ْ َّن َ َوَ