Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 368
368 day. But the truth is fchafc. no religious difference is worth consideration unless both sides are guided by principles of wisdom and justice. In this case, however, the differences are sure to be settled because with reason as our guide we can easily arrive at a satisfactory solution. As regards the minor differences, they need not trouble us as they do not cause any hinderanee in the desired union. It is only when one party abuses the religious leaders of the other or calls its sacred book as the fabrication of man that religious differences causes wide breach and become like an impassable gulf between the two. communities. Besides this, the lovers of union will be glad to learn that the teaching of the Quran is not opposed to the Yedic teachirig, but that it is met with in some one or other of the different schools: that accept the Vedas. For instance, though the newly risen sect of Hinduism, called the Arya Saroaj, gives it out as the fundamental doctrine of Hinduism, that Vedic revelation has sealed the Divine revelation for ever, but the great Avatars of the Hindu faith who are followed by tens of millions of the people of this country have by their claims of being the recipients. of Divine revelation shown the falsehood of this principle and broken the supposed seal. An example ofi this is to be met with in the person of the renowned Krishna who is accepted as an avatar by vast numbers of Hindus in Bengal as well as here and who claimed to be the recipient of Divine revelation. His followers go so far as to consider him God in flesh, but there is no doubt that he was the Prophet and avatar (a manifestation of. the Divine Being) of his time and Almighty God revealed to him -His holy word. In the latter days of Hinduism, another example of the same kind is to be met with in the person of Nanak whose righteousness and sanctity have an unsullied reputation in this