Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 359
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 359 though they go on proclaiming loudly that the West is heading towards disaster. They fail to recognize that the only way of deliverance is through the re-establishment of man's relationship with God. In today's world the only claimant of such a possibility is the Ahmadiyya Movement. It not only puts forward such a claim, it furnishes practical illustration of the truth of the claim. To mention only one aspect of such proof, there is frequent and continuous experience of the acceptance of prayer among the members of the Movement which acceptance is often indicated through some form of revelation, and is confirmed by the achievement of the pur- pose of the prayer in the face of all types of adverse circum- stances and considerations. It is only through such experience that a person can arrive at the absolute certainty offaith in the Divine which alone can work the needed moral and spiritual revolution in the lives of people. This is the challenge th~t the Ahmadiyya Movement presents to an incredulous world. It is the challenge of a revived, strong and invigorated Islam. Islam is the distilled essence of all truth. There is not a single fundamental verity that is not comprised in the Holy Quran. It requires faith in all the prophets and in the revelations that were vouchsafed to them. By the acceptance of Islam a Jew is not called upon to repudiate Moses and the Prophets, he is invited to fuller acceptance of Moses and the Prophets and the fulfilment of their prophecies; a Christian is not called upon to repudiate Jesus and the Gospel, he is invited to believe in the true capacity of Jesus as set out in the Gospel, and his interpretation of the Law and the fulfilment of his prophecies relating to the Comforter and the whole truth. A Zoroastrian is not called upon to repudiate Zoroaster and the Zendavesta, he is invited to accept the fulfilment of the teaching and message of Zoroaster; a Hindu is not called upon to repudiate the Rishis and the Vedas and Rama and Krishna, he is invited to accept the fulfilment of their message and teachings; a Buddhist is not called upon to repudiate Sakia Muni Gautam as the Buddha, he is invit~d to accept the fulfilment and culmination of the teachings of the Buddha