The Ocean of Light — Page 33
33 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS anything for this world. Their anguish never ends and their hidden grief never abates. However, they are not worried about the day when their Self-Sufficient Lord will show His wrath. The entire sum of their efforts has been lost in seeking things pertaining to the life of this world and they have lost all understanding. Their hearts have died, so that they cannot be roused from this stupor. They have brought their souls to the watering hole of God’s Wrath. Moreover, they do not eschew the path of the sinful and tread only those paths which run counter to the ways of righteousness, even if it is made clear to them that such acts are forbidden by the Shariah. They see the Devil’s urine as bountiful rain and the excrement of cattle as a blessing. They reach the end of their years, but the crookedness of their character, which entered them from their infancy does not seem to end. The moment talismans were taken away from them 1 sins besieged them. They gave value 1 This is an old Arabic expression which indicates reaching the age of maturity, as the Arabs used to attach talismans on their young