The Islamic Mode of Worship — Page 18
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 18 After the recitation of this chapter the worshipper says taught to pray that they be made part of the chain of prophethood. This ideal has not been bestowed on any other faith. All other religions have firmly closed on themselves the door of divine revelation. It is only Islam which teaches its followers that the door to divine revelation can never be shut, and that it is impossible that God, Who at one time discoursed with men and women from among the Children of Israel and [other past communities], would cease to discourse with and guide His creation in the future. This ideal is neither impractical, nor impossible to achieve. It offers those possessed of a noble heart a continual course of progress and fixes their goal not on any inferior objective, but rather on the attainment of direct communication with the creator of the universe, the sovereign of all sovereigns and the master of absolute love. And with this aim in front of them, many Muslims [have since the birth of Islam], offered their examples of enjoying direct communion with Allah the Exalted. The Holy Prophet sa even foretold the advent of a great recipient of revelation whom he named as the Mahdi and Messiah. He would be known as the Mahdi by virtue of reforming the Muslims of his time who would be engrossed in error, distant from the truth of Islam and by whose words and deeds none would be able to recognise the excellences of Islam. And he would be known as the Messiah, for he would fulfil those prophecies which spoke of the second coming of Jesus as , and reform the world of Christianity for they would have erred from the teachings of Jesus as , and bring them back to the right path. Accordingly, this person appeared in India in the town of Qadian. Over the course of the next thirty years or so, he established the truth of Islam through heavenly signs, and there are thousands of his followers alive today who, having been reformed by him, are recipients of divine revelation. He inculcated his community with such a zeal for spreading his message that they are fast bringing the world over towards themselves. At the present time, Chaudhry Fateh Muhammad Sayyal M. A and Abdul Rahim Nayyar are preaching his message to the people of England and Mufti Muhammad Sadiq is spreading his teachings in the