Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 34
34 attribute such a denigrating proposition to the Holy Prophet s as. We would rather lose our hands than write such words about him s as. The Holy Prophet s as is the beloved of God and his spiritual power can never wane. He is the Seal of the Prophets and his spiritual grace and munificence can never fail. He can never be indebted to anyone, while all other Prophets are indebted to him. There is not a Prophet who made deniers of the Holy Prophet s as believe in him, but there are millions to whom the Holy Prophet s as has testified regarding the truth of all the other Prophets. There are said to be about eighty million Muslims in India. Some came from other lands but the rest are all indigenous and were not even aware of the names of any Prophets. Then, after accepting the Holy Prophet s as , they came to believe in Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and many others prophets (peace be on them). If they had not become Muslims, they would still be hostile to those Prophets and see them as impostors, just as their Hindu brothers do even to this day. The same is true of the people of Afghanistan, China and Iran, who never believed in Moses or Jesus and it was the Holy Prophet s as who apprised them of the truth of these Prophets. The Holy Prophet s as has thus done all those Prophets a favour by revealing their truth to mankind. He himself is indebted to no one, and may the day never dawn when his spiritual power declines and someone from another dispensation is required to reform his ummah. The fact is that whenever there is a need for the ref - ormation of this ummah, God chooses people from among the followers of the Holy Prophet who, having received and learned everything from him, reform those who have been corrupted and bring back to the right path those who have gone astray. Their mission is the mission of the Holy Prophet s as , for the pupil cannot