So Said The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 33
FRIENDS OF GOD There are a lot of people ii1 the world who live a vulgar and luxurious life: they crave fo1 t I 1e worldly honour and wealth anJLJU. ,UPerties. The whole of their life, they remain occupied in vain struggles and ambitions and they continue planning for it. They do it, till the last breath of theirs. These people had also been given talents and had they. used them properly, they would have attained to the truth. God has not acted niggardly towards anyone whosoever. Blessed is he who puts the talents, granted by God, to their proper use. There are many people who, when they are told to fear God and obey His commandments, retort by saying: Are we going to be a Wall (a friend of God). This kind of utterance is no less than heresy: it is thinking evil of God. It is only the worldly Governments that are short of jobs; that is not the case with God. Whoever has a true relationship with God can have His blessings that were vouchsafed to the Truthful iii the past. God has called His beloved people ''Wali" and is it any difficult for Him to make Walis. Not at all. It is easy for Him to make Walls. What is required in this respect is that man should advwce towards Him with sincerity and steadfastness. No difficulty should make him waver. When a man has true relation with God and he becomes pure and pious and gets himself away from all that displeases God then God also introduces a relationship with him and comes closer to him. But if on the other hand somebody goes farther away from God and adopts dirty ways of life, God does not care for him. He says: Falamma Zaghoo azaghallaho qoloobahum 33