Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 149
149 particular person. " The truth of this remark, is not clear, for the person who does not consider it necessary for salvation to follow the author of the Veda, cannot admit the authority of the Veda but must regard it false. For instance, if a person does not admit the truth of the principles and injunctions of the Veda, rejects the. Niyoga, i e. , the immoral practice of allowing the wife to have illegal connection with strangers for the sake of children, or condemns the principle that God is not the creator of anything but that everything is like God self-existent, or considers the worship of fire, sun, moon, &c. , as mere fetishism and thus rejects the Veda as waste paper, so much so that he does not look upon the God presented by the Veda as the true God, will he be entitled to salvation or not ? If he is, we would like to see the verse quoted from the Veda from which such a conclusion is drawn ; but if he is 'not, then your assertion does not hold good, For, what we say is simply this that the person who does not believe. in the truth of the injunctions of the Holy Quran shall not get salvation and shall lead his life like a blind man in this world. Almighty God says: *^ Jw/ \^ [ k * p ^ $ )^ V ^* > ^^sJ) ^ X^aJ ) ^j X 5 which means that the person who shall not follow the religion of Islam which the Holy Quran preaches, will never be acceptable in the sight of God, and after death he shall be one of the lost. To say that the Veda, does not require us to follow any person is not true, for to follow a book is the same as to follow, its author. If the Hindus do not follow the Veda, what does all this noise about it mean ? Your last assertion that great men have been in every religion, does not carry any weight unless it is shown that some such great man who can show signs is living at the present time in any religion except Islam. Was Pandit Lekh Ham one of the great men, because his loss is bewailed by the Arya Sarnaj to this day ? QADIAN: " MIBZA GULAM AHMAD. 24th June 2903,