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Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IV rah has said that man
will always have contradiction with his soul
so long as he is not true v – thereby indicating
that the journey towards truthfulness is in fact
a journey to seek God – it is thus a journey to
strive to imitate God’s Attributes – truthfulness
being a fundamental one.
Embarking on this journey together…
If we all resolve to embark upon this spiritual
journey together – of aspiring towards reaching
that primeval standard of truthfulness – of
rejecting the pursuit and creation of our worldly
gardens – of rejecting falsehood in the most
miniscule facets of our lives – only then will we
be able to truly cleanse our souls of falsehood
and ultimately transcend from oscillating
between what the Promised Messiah as has
referred to as the states of Nafse Ammarah and
R E F E R E N C E S
i
Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad ra ,
Way of the Seekers, (2002:15) Islamabad: Islam
International Publications
ii
The Holy Qur’an, Ch.33:V.71-72
iii
Tafseer-ul-Qur’an, Volume III, pp.731-732
iv
Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V aba on the occasion of Jalsa
Salana Nigeria, 2008. In The Review of Religions, Vol.
103, Issue 8, p.16
v
Q&A session with Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad rah at
Cologne, Germany, on 21 August 1996. Available at:
http://www.alislam.org/library/links/Attainment-of-
Inner-Peace.html
vi
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as ,The Philosophy of
the Teachings of Islam, (revised edition: 4-6, 2010)
Islamabad: Islam International Publications
Nafse Lawamah, and reach Nafse Mutmainah. vi
The path to inner peace may thus be summed
up hence:
T r a n s i t i o n f r o m
r e j e c t i n g l y i n g
A d o p t i n g t h e p a t h
t o w a r ds t r u t h - s e e k i n g
A n d f i n a l l y t r u s t b u i l d i n g :
t r u s t b u i l d i n g w i t h o u r s e l v e s ,
t r u s t b u i l d i n g w i t h e a c h
o t h e r a n d a b o v e a l l , t r u s t
b u i l d i n g w i t h G o d .
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