The Ocean of Light — Page 35
35 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS faith has changed from its initial character; the soul has been lost and only the skeleton remains. The innovations of their scholars have changed the face of Islam, and they have made it appear like a rabbit even though in reality it is like a lion. Therefore, you will see that today its thunder does not bring forth rain and time turns against it. Every adversary wants to gobble it up and every enemy wants to annihilate it. The sciences have caused it great grief, and astronomy has also stepped up its onslaughts. On one hand as night turned into day for the Hindus, so they attacked us due to their excessive wild imagination, and on the other hand the philosophers attacked us so ferociously that they exceeded even the storms brought on by the harshest of winds. Among them, you will observe an Islam which is unrecognisable, its countenance has been made to look grotesque: like someone on the battlefield, whose two hands have been amputated so that he cannot fight, and at the same time his feet