Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 104
104 latter days, people’s hearts would be like the non-Arabs while their language would be that of the Arabs. 20 That is to say, they would speak the language of the Arab Prophet s as but it would have no impact on their hearts. This transformation is most visible today. Arabs have become such strangers to Islam that they know as little of the Holy Quran as those who can neither understand it nor have anyone to teach it to them. Another great change in the condition of the Muslims pre - dicted by the Holy Prophet s as is that freedom of religion would become extinct in Arabia, so much so that any righteous person would find it impossible to live there. According to Hadrat ‘Al i ra , the Holy Prophet s as said that in Arabia men of piety and virtue would choose to remain obscure. 21 This can also be witnessed in Arabia today where there is a total lack of religious tolerance. They have become so fundamentalist in their beliefs and tradi - tions that the lives of people who respond to the call of God and His Prophet s as are not safe. Even though this affliction is shared by other Muslim countries, it is all the more lamentable in the case of Arabia because every able Muslim has to go there to perform the Hajj, as commanded by God. Their intolerance, thus, has a negative impact on piety. The only way open is to fulfil the obliga - tion of Hajj quietly and come back. May Allah guide the people of Arabia and may they become the banner-bearers of Islam as they were thirteen hundred years ago.