Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 509
UNDATED about the destruction and death of those who are not heedless of the Faith. The [Ahmadiyya] Movement Being on the Pattern of Prophethood The Promised Messiahas said: Our Movement is on the pattern of Prophethood. Just as the Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had to confront the Jews and the Christians, in the same way, we also had to confront Muslims possessing the character- istics of the Jews and the Christians. Do these maulawis want to win us over with flawed and incorrect logic and weak ahā- dīth and sayings? The Noble Messenger, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, declared all the verses of the Torah and the Gospel that disputed his status of being the Hakam [Arbiter] to have been tampered with, or he interpreted them in such a way that they supported his Islamic Movement. He interpreted those verses with God-given discernment and revelation, and he rejected the erroneous interpretations of the People of the Book. The Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, did not accept the whole of the existing Torah and Gospel as being correct. Rather, he adjudged many verses to have been altered, and many he interpreted correctly based on his revela- tions. The same is the case with our [Ahmadiyya] Movement. I have come as the Hakam. Is it obligatory for the Hakam to become a follower of a particular sect? Out of the 72 sects, whose ahādīth should he accept? The Hakam will declare some ahādīth to be unacceptable and rejected and others to be valid. 509