The Advent of the Fifteenth Century after Hijra — Page 10
By establishing a community whose motto is 'I shall prefer. Faith over every Wordly Concern', Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad declared war upon every type of vice and impurity. That was the metaphorical killing of swine. He himself led a wholly blameless, pure and beneficent life, which followed in the minutest detail the pattern that had been established by the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him. He founded a community, the members of which are required to illustrate in their daily lives all the social, moral and spiritual values inculcated by Islam, of which the highest example was furnished in the life of the Holy Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him. They are drawn from every walk of life and are practical men pursuing the whole range of beneficent activities according to the teachings of Islam. . They do not reject the normal values of life and have set enviable examples of full, successful and highly beneficent lives. . The distinguishing feature of their lives is the upholding of the moral and the spiritual above the material and the physical in a pattern of beneficent co-ordination. As taught by Islam, they believe that the faculties and capacities bestowed upon man by. God Almighty are a precious bounty and must be beneficently developed and exercised at their proper time and occasion and are not to be suppressed or stultified. The moral and spiritual code to which they seek to conform imposes no handicap upon them. There have, by the grace and mercy of God, appeared among them, persons possessing high eminence in almost every sphere of human life. . Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had been bestowed by divine favour vast and deep knowledge and understanding of the Holy. Quran, miraculous proficiency in the Arabic language and an extraordinary insight into divine secrets with which, according to the Holy Quran, only divine Messengers are favoured (72:27). In his book Minanur Rahman he developed his thesis that Arabic was the mother of tongues, which came as a happy surprise even to eminent Arab lexicographists. However, he claimed nothing on his own. He stressed repeatedly that every favour that had been bestowed upon him was bestowed by virtue of the spiritual grace of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, to whom he was passionately and whole-heartedly devoted. He gave expression to his all-consuming love for the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, in heart-moving prose and verse in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. 10