Friends! arise and become alert, for a time of great turmoil has arrived for the people of this age. There is no vessel, other than righteousness, to cross this river. A believer should, at a time of fear, lean towards God, as there is no peace without Him. Make your own atonement through crying and supplicating. Make your own sacrifice by devoting yourselves to the truth. Carry your own burden with the help of complete righteousness. Our God is Merciful and Compassionate. His wrath is averted from those who weep before the time of chastisement, and not when they behold the corpses of the dead. He has the power to avert a prophecy of chastisement from those who fear Him…Work righteously and hope for the mercy of God. Move with your full strength towards God Almighty, and if you cannot do this, drag yourselves willy-nilly to the door of His pleasure, and if you cannot do even that, then seek your revival from spiritual death through charity and almsgiving. These are hard days, and the wrath of God is aflame in heaven. Today, you cannot achieve your purpose with empty words and boasting. Bring about such a change in yourselves and tread along the path of righteousness so that the Merciful and the Compassionate should be pleased with you.
Let your private chambers be filled with the remembrance of God. Remove the rust of impurities from your hearts. Avoid rancour, miserliness and evil talk. Before you are overtaken by the time which would afflict people with insanity, be madly absorbed in your anxious entreaties. Most unfortunate are the people who consider faith to mean only the dexterity and adroitness of the tongue, while their hearts are dark and impure, and they are worms of the world. If you care for yourselves, be not like them. Most unfortunate is the person who casts not a glance at his sinful ego and, because of his evil-smelling bigotry, reviles others. He is doomed to ruin. Partake wholly of righteousness and bear the full burden of the fear of God and be constant in supplication so that you may be shown mercy…
Listen, I have discharged my duty, and I have warned you before the onset of difficult times.
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), Malfuzat – Vol. IV (Islam International Publications Ltd., 2024), 54-55.
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