Arrogance and Mischief are Evil

Arrogance and mischief are evil. A slight mistake might destroy all the good achieved over a period of seventy long years. It is written of a holy man who dwelt in a mountain where no rain had fallen over a long period, that one day when rain fell over stones and rocks also, he felt that rain was needed by fields and gardens and that much of it which had fallen on stones and rocks had been wasted. It would have been of much greater benefit if it had fallen over cultivated fields. Thereupon God Almighty deprived him of all holiness. He became very sorrowful and sought help from another holy person and was told in the end that he had o ended God because of his criticism.¹

Endnotes

1. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad^as, The Essence of Islam, vol. 2 (Tilford, Surrey: Islam International Publications, 1993), 360.