The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 285
The Holy Prophetsa 285 the Prophets, the best of Messengers and the Seal of the. Prophets, Muḥammad, and his people and his companions and bestow Thy bounties and peace upon them. . The Christian divines, Pundits, Brahmūs, Āryās and other opponents of our time need not wonder where are the blessings and heavenly lights in respect of which the followers of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him] are sharers with Moses and Jesus and where is the heritage of those lights which are bestowed on Muslims and from which all other people and followers of other religions are debarred? To set their doubts at rest, we have stated it several times in this footnote, that we are responsible for setting forth the proof of these things before any seeker after truth who would be ready, on witnessing the particular superiority of Islām, to become a Muslim. . In the second sub footnote 168, we have set out in brief, how God Almighty manifests His Divine powers and graces and blessings in the case of Muslims, and how He has promised and given good news of events that are beyond human power. So if any Christian divine, Pundit or Brahmū denies these things, on account of his inner darkness, or any Āryā, or a follower of other faiths, is truly and sincerely a seeker after God, it is incumbent upon him that like a true seeker, he should discard all pride, arrogance, hypocrisy, worship of the world, obstinacy and contention and, seeking only the truth and wishing only for it, should come straight to us like a poor and humble person and should then be patient, steadfast, 168 The reference is to the second sub footnote in Brāhīn-eAhmadiyya, which starts on page 293 in Ruhānī Khazā'in, Vol. 1. [Translator]