The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 269
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI that they are practically dead, for the face of God has become hidden from them and heavenly signs that had been shown in the past have become like myths. So God has designed a new heaven and a new. earth. The new earth are the pure hearts whom God is preparing with. His own hand, who will be manifested by God and through whom. God is preparing with His own hand, who will be manifested by God. and through whom God will be made Manifest. The new heavens are the Signs that are being manifested by His command through His servant (Kashti Nuh, p. 10-11). 11. Had my claim been put forward on my own, you would have been free to reject me, but if God's Holy Prophet bears witness for me in his prophecies and God manifests His Signs in my support, then do not wrong yourselves by rejecting me. Say not that you are. Muslims and have no need of accepting thy Messiah. . I tell you truly that he who accepts me accepts him who had prophesied about me thirteen hundred years in advance, and had indicated the time of my appearance, and had specified my function; and he who rejects me rejects him who had commanded that I should. be accepted (Ayyamus Sulh, p. 93). 12. To follow me it is necessary for them to believe that they have a Mighty, Self-Existing and All-Creating God, Whose attributes are eternal and unchangeable. He has no father and no son. He is exempt from suffering and being put upon the cross and being killed. . He is far, and yet near. He is near, and yet far. He is One, but has diverse manifestations. Thus a person experiences a change in God according to change in himself. Yet, no change takes place in God, for he is eternally unchangeable and perfect, but when a person moves towards goodness, God manifests Himself to him in a new way. At the time of every improved condition that manifests itself His might in an extraordinary way, where an extraordinary change takes place in a person. This is the God Who is presented by our Movement. Believe in Him and prefer Him to your own souls and your comforts and all your relationships; and exhibit sincerity and loyalty in His cause with 269