Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 23
23 rights of those who have been despoiled, to abolish war and disorder, to bring about universal peace, to collect all mankind under the banner of one faith and one creed, to propagate the truth among all nations, to purify Islam of extraneous errors and to present the true doctrines of Islam to the world, and finally to demonstrate to the world the glory of God by manifest signs. A truly splendid mission and a glorious prospect! But has any claimant ever said anything different from this? Every one of them is bound to place before the world equally glorious prospects, for nobody would pay any attention to mere commonplace assertions. Such fine declarations are all considered the more necessary in the present age when every thing depends upon propagation and advertisement. Hence, if the claims of the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement had been supported merely by such declarations, they would have deserved no particular attention and would not have been entitled to any preference over the claims of any other person. But as I shall presently show he has left us such a complete code of instructions and rules of con- duct, that all sensible persons will acknowledge that by acting on them the objects of his advent, as above stated, may be easily and fully achieved. One question, however, presents itself at this stage, and although it is not easy of comprehension, it is impossible, without understanding it, to arrive at a full realization of the true significance of the Ahmadiyya Movement. That question is this. Considering the holy founder of the Movement calls himself a Muslim and is one of the followers of Muhammad sa and asserts that his