Elements of Righteousness — Essence of Islam Vol. 2

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In this discourse from Essence of Islam (Volume 2), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, expounds upon Elements of Righteousness, presenting profound spiritual insights and scriptural verities.

Book Series: Essence of Islam (Volume 2)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Section: Part 11: Righteousness
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347 RIGHTEOUSNESS In the Holy Qur’an more emphasis has been laid on virtue and righteousness than on any other commandment. The reason for this is that righteousness bestows the strength to resist all vice and urges progress towards all good. Righteousness is in all circumstances a charm that guarantees security and is a citadel for safeguarding against all harm.
A righteous person can avoid many vain and harmful contentions that often lead other people to ruin. They sow the seed of dissension among the people through their hasty actions and suspicions and lay themselves open to objection.
[Ayyam-us-Sulh, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 14, p. 342]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 347]

There are many elements in righteousness. It is righteousness to avoid pride and self-esteem and to refrain from unlawful acquisition and ill manners. A person who displays courtesy and good manners converts his enemies into friends.
[Malfuzat, vol. I, p. 81]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 347]

Blessed is the one who adopts righteousness in a time of success and prosperity and most unfortunate is one who does not turn to righteousness after stumbling.
[Malfuzat, vol. I, p. 157]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 347]

The spiritual beauty of man is to walk along all the finer
[Brahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part V, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 21, pp. 209-210]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 347]

True righteousness and ignorance cannot subsist together. True righteousness is accompanied by a light, as God the Glorious, has said:

142Al-Anfal, 8:30 [Publisher] That is to say, that that light would illumine all their actions and words and faculties and senses. Their intellect would be illumined and there would be light in all that they utter. There would be light in their eyes and in their ears and in their tongues and in their speech and in all their movements. The ways along which they walk would be lit up. All their ways, the ways of their faculties and their senses will be filled with light, and they will walk altogether in light.
[A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, pp. 177-178]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 348]

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