Noah's Ark: An Invitation to Faith — Page 46
HAZRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD (AS) certainty. You ought to do this for the sake of salvation, not for the ostentatious display of revelation. There are many pure commandments in the Holy Quran, one of them being to shun all forms of idolatry, as an idolater remains deprived of the fountain of salvation. And do not tell lies for lying too is a form of idolatry. Unlike the Gospel, which forbids one to look covetously and lustfully at women who are not Mahram but permits it otherwise, the Quran instructs against glancing at women under any circumstances, be it covetously or with pure intentions because one is liable to stumble on this account. In fact, your eyes should always be lowered when you confront a Non-Mahram. You should not be aware of the physical form of a woman except through an obscured sight, in the way a person's vision is clouded in the early stages of cataract. Unlike the Gospel, the Quran does not permit its followers to drink alcohol, so long as they are not intoxicated by it. Rather, it forbids its consumption completely. Otherwise, you would be lost from the path that leads to God and His converse, nor would God cleanse such a person of their impurities. The Quran says that such things are the invention of Satan and you should guard yourself against them. 6 A man or woman with whom marriage is impermissible. [Publisher] 46