Our Teaching — Page 34
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as 34 O Ye Learned People of Islam! Do not Hasten to Reject Me O learned ones of Islam! Do not hasten to reject me for there are many secrets which are not so easily understood. Do not reject what I have to say at the very first instance, for this is not the way of righteousness. If you had not been wrong about certain mat- ters or mistaken in your interpretations of certain ahaadeeth , the very advent of the Promised Messiah who is the Arbitrator would have been useless…Further, your doctrines that the Messiah son of Mary will descend from heaven, join forces with the Mahdi and wage war with the people in order to coerce them into becoming Muslims are such as defame the religion of Islam. Where in the Holy Quran is the use of compulsion in religious matters permit- ted? Rather, Allah the Exalted says in the Holy Quran: 1 ۤاَل َهاَرْكِا يِف ِنْيِّدلا This means that there is no compulsion in religion. How then can the Messiah son of Mary be granted liberty to coerce people to such an extent that he would force them to accept Islam. The entire Quran repeatedly states that there is no compul- sion in religion and evidently demonstrates that the battles which took place in the time of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, were not to propagate religion by force. Instead, they were [1] in the nature of retribution, that is to say, they served as a penalty against those who had murdered a 1. Surah al-Baqarah , 2:257 [Publisher]