The Beliefs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community — Page 4
‑ 4 ‑ the guidance of the world. Some bring a new law, while others bring only guidance and no fresh commandments are disclosed to them. We believe that those prophets who do not bring a new law, but only interpret and elucidate on the previous one, come when dissension, an absence of spirituality, estrangement with God and a lack of righteousness and goodness of heart impairs the ability of people to properly understand the law. Even if the people are able to uncover the true meaning in certain matters, they are faced with such a multiplicity of interpretations that it hinders them from having any confidence in it. When the power and might of God is hidden from the sight of people, and His being is reduced to myth and legend and fresh manifestations of divine signs no longer appear in the world, Allah the Exalted sends a prophet, who through the correct interpretation of the divine word vouchsafed to him by the Almighty, delivers it