So Said The Promised Messiah (as)

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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So Said The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 173

TRUE COMFORT It is not true that tht: disbelievers also enjoy comfort and well-being (that is, they don't have it). Those who think. otherwise, do not know that these people (the disbelievers} are slaves to the intoxicants and they lack courage. Had they been contented and in a comfortable position they would not have been committing suicide. A Believer never commits suicide. The wine and other intoxicants are generally-and on the face of them-known to be the removers of sadness and grief. The fact is that the best recipe for the removal of grief and to have comfort, is true Faith. It is the Believer about whom it is said (In the Holy Quran) Wa Ziman khafa maqama Rabbihi jannataan He who fears God attains to two paradises (one in this world and the other in the next world}. (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 338} SPHERE OF FAITH The Muttaqi (one who fears God} keeps his lips closed as if he has pebbles in his mouth. He does not like to widen the sphere of Disbelief. On the other handj he likes to widen the sphere of Belief. I did believe that these theologians were not clean hearted and they were adultrating the truth but no stretch of my imagination could ever think that they would prove to be so mean as they have really proved to be in oppo- sition to me. The life is passing just as the ice continues melting. Every day I think of getting hold of someone who should go to them (the theologians) and find out a V/:3'Y for arriving at 173