Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 185
185 are the dangerous beliefs that are widespread among Muslims today, be they the clergy or the laity, Muqallid or non-Muqallid, Sunni or Shia. In the presence of such beliefs, no one can say that these Muslims conform to the Kalimah ‘There is no God but Allah’. No doubt, Muslims still profess the Kalimah and recite it all the time, but owing to the above beliefs, they are as far removed from its essence as are the idol-worshippers. The teaching the Promised Messiah as brought to correct these erroneous and misguided beliefs was so firmly rooted in Tau hi d and so upholding of Divine majesty that, in accepting it, one’s heart is filled with Divine love, and having been delivered from the fire of Shirk , one attains the status that belonged to the Companions of the Holy Prophet s as. The Promised Messiah as disproved all the above-mentioned beliefs with the help of reason and argument and proclaimed in clear terms that God is One, and that to pray to any dead person, or to make offerings at the graves of the dead, or to prostrate before anyone, dead or alive, or to ascribe Divine powers to a mortal, be he a Prophet or non-Prophet, or to make an offering of an animal or any other thing in the name of some - one other than God, or to believe that a person has the power to persuade God to do anything he wants, all these are forms of Shirk that a believer should avoid at all costs. The Promised Messiah as also proved that Jesus, like all other Prophets, had died and had been buried in a grave. He could revive the spiritually dead and could create as a man can create, but he had no power to bestow life upon lifeless objects or to quicken the dead, with or without God’s permission. God never shares His special attributes with any man, and the Holy Quran categorically denies that Jesus or anyone else possesses these attributes. Those