Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 160
160 of this argument is the Sikh religion, and this is because Guru Nanak, the Founder of the Sikhs, appeared long after the Holy Prophet s as. This is despite the fact that they, too, have a proph - ecy about a Reformer of the latter days, and it is clearly written that he would appear from around Bat a la. 10 (Bat a la is the te hsi l within which the village of Qadian is located, thus this prophecy has been literally fulfilled). The objection that might arise is how could the Sikh religion have been born after the Holy Prophet s as if he was Kh a tamun-Nabiyy i n? In order to reform the Sikh religion and to convert its members to Islam, Allah informed the Promised Messiah as through a dream that Guru Nanak was not the founder of a new religion but was in fact a sincere Muslim. The reader will be amazed to learn that this seemingly strange claim was proven with such strong arguments that thousands of Sikhs accepted its truth. Sikhs, who had hitherto associated themselves with Hinduism, now started to vehemently distance themselves from that religion. Before the coming of the Promised Messiah as , many Hindu idols would be found in Sikh Gurudwaras. After this claim by the Promised Messiah as , while the Sikhs as a community did not accept Islam, there came about such a trans - formation in them that they started throwing out these idols from their Gurudwaras and began distancing themselves from Hinduism. When the Promised Messiah as started researching the Sikh religion after his dream, he found that the Granth Sahib, the col - lection of the teachings of Baba Guru Nanak, contains strong exhortations for the five-daily prayers, the annual month of Ramadan, paying Zakat, performing the Hajj, as well as warnings for those who fail to observe these religious duties. It also appeared