Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 165
165 Holy Quran for an answer and changed the very outlook of the world regarding this issue. The Holy Quran says: 12 ْنِا ْنِّم ٍةَّمُا اَّلِا اَلَخ اَهْيِف ٌرْيِذَن There is no people to whom a warner has not come. That is to say, God’s Messengers came to every country and every people. We do not say that India did not have Prophets, or Africa did not have Prophets, or Europe did not have Prophets, or America was without Prophets, nor do we hear of the spiritual founders of other religions and consider them to be false, for we have been told that Prophets have come to every people. The fact that Prophets and Divine laws and scriptures are found among other peoples and nations does not contradict our beliefs in any way. Indeed, this testifies to the truth of our religion. We do, however, believe that while in the past God sent Messengers to various nations and peoples according to their spe - cific requirements, later, when man became capable of receiving the perfect Guidance, God revealed it through the Holy Prophet s as and sent him as a Messenger to the whole world. In this way, no people were ever deprived of Divine guidance. Today, Islam alone is the path of guidance, for it is the final and perfect teaching and all past teachings were abrogated with its coming. A sign of the abrogation of past teachings is that God no longer safeguards them and they constantly suffer from human interpolation. They have deviated far from the truth and are beyond recognition. They are true in terms of their origin but are false in the form that we see them today. No one can disagree with this outlook presented by the