Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 77
77 Verily, We Ourself have sent down the Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian. The greater part of the protection of its essence is that when - ever people deviate so far from the Holy Quran that its light is obscured by its words and people’s hearts and minds no longer accept its influence, God makes provisions to restore its efficacy and to reveal its meaning and to restore to it its vitality and fresh - ness. This interpretation is corroborated by authentic Sayings of the Holy Prophet s as. Hadrat Ab u Hurairah ra relates that the Holy Prophet s as said: 9 دُلَھَا دِیْنَھَا ِّ مِائَۃ ِ سَنَۃ ٍ مَن ْ یُجَد ِّ ۃ ِ عَلٰی رَأْس ِ کُل َّ ہللا َ یَبْعَث ُ لِھٰذِہ ِ الُْم َّ اِن Verily God will continue to raise for this ummah at the beginning of every century one who will restore for it its faith. This Hadith is, in fact, an exposition of the verse, ‘Verily, We Ourself have sent down the Exhortation and We Ourself are its Protector. ’ The Holy Prophet s as has explained a part of this verse in simple terms so that naïve and superficial-mind people may not take it literally and, by ignoring a very powerful means for the protection of Islam, become a stumbling block for themselves and others. The above Hadith also shows that these men—who will come to correct the errors arising out of people’s failure to fathom the meaning of the Holy Quran and out of their estrangement from the Word of God—will appear at the head of each century. In other words, a series of fortresses have been set up to safeguard