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Condition II
The businessmen need to ponder over this. Clean dealings are a condition of bai‘at. The Promised Messiahas says: It is established from hadith that the wicked should be punished before the disbelievers…. This is the way of Allah, that when a nation becomes wicked and immoral, another nation is made to rule over it. (Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 2, p. 653)
Then he says: When wickedness and immorality exceeded their limits, and people started disrespecting the commandments and signs of Allah, and were lost into the affairs of the world and its adornment, God caused their ruin at the hands of Halaku and Changez Khan. It is written that at that time a cry was heard from heaven:25 In short, the wicked and the immoral are lower and more despicable than disbelievers in the eyes of Allah. (Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 3, p. 108)
Then he says: The prayer of the wicked tyrant is not accepted because he is unmindful of Allah, and thus Allah cares not for him. If a son is unmindful of his obligations to his father, the father does not care about him, because of his disobedience. Why should
25. O disbelievers kill the transgressors. 35
