Truth Prevails — Page 18
( 18 ) “Where a person accepts me with all sincerity, he renders obedience to me, giving me the position of arbitor in all points of dispute, and asks me for a ruling in every contention. But wherever a man did not accept me from the bottom of his heart, you will find him full of pride, full of vanity, and self-willed. In all such cases you should realise that he has no connection with me, since he fails to honour things which come to me from Allah. There is no honour for him, therefore, in heaven. ” ( Arba’in , No. 3, Footnote 34) Insubordination of the Lahore Section Please mark the self-assertion of our friends of the Lahore Section: “Even if the Imam (the Promised Messiah in this case) desired to get us to agree to a thing not warranted by the Quran and the Hadith, we would decline to do so. ” ( Paigham-i-Sulha Vol. 3 No. 5) Now to say this in regard to a person spoken of by the Holy Prophet himself as the arbitor on points under dispute, is preposterous to say the least.