10 March 1901

The Sole Solution to One’s Troubles

Someone requested the Promised Messiah (as) to pray so that he could find deliverance from his various troubles. The Promised Messiah (as) said: “I will pray.” The man in question had perhaps thought that he could attain what he desired by putting his trust in some other person. On this, the Promised Messiah (as) said: “Never put your trust in another human being. Trust God alone. For if you put your trust in another individual, you shall remain deprived and gain nothing. This is the essence of Islam—to be wholly devoted to God. When one adopts this way of practice, all of their difficulties will be solved.”

The Promised Messiah (as) said: “When the ill of associating partners with Allah is dispelled from the world, it is then that the glory of God Almighty is manifested. For associating partners with Allah is a sin, which God says shall never be forgiven. The greatest form of associating partners with God in this day and age is that the Messiah (as) is given the station of God.”

The Disorder Caused by the Christians Uprooted in Surah Ikhlas

The Promised Messiah (as) said: “Since the trial of the Christians is the gravest of all, for this reason, Allah the Exalted has dedicated an entire chapter of the Holy Quran to them, and that is, Surah Ikhlas. There is no other chapter in the Holy Quran which in its entirety is dedicated to a specific nation. Ahad is a name of God and in terms of deeper meaning, the word Ahad (i.e. the One and Only, Who has no other), is greater than the Arabic word Wahid (which simply means the One). The meaning of Samad is He Who is eternally Self-Sufficient in His very nature and Being, and Who does not depend on anyone else. If one believes in the concept of the Trinity, one would have to accept that God is dependent.”