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cular type of study, it would prosper, for it would have a new purpose. . This new purpose, or an old purpose re-emphasised, which the people in time had come to overlook, is often referred to as the Message of a movement. 3. During my first visit to Europe (1924), the question I was frequently called upon to answer was:. What is the message of Ahmadiyyat for the world?. In other words, what was there in its teachings which was not known to the world before, or which the world had tended to overlook?. The Holy Quran also recognises the validity of this principle. It says: 13/15 19 فَامَّا الزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفَاء وَأَمَّا مَا يَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ كذلكَ يَضْرِبُ اللهُ الأَمْثَالَ لِلنَّاسِ يمْكُتُ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ الله i. e. Foam and filth, being useless, are thrown away to be destroyed, while things beneficial and necessary for man, like water for instance, endure upon this earth. This is how Allah propounds parableg to explain the truth for the people. (13:18). The Criterion for a Divine Mission. It was on this verse of the Holy Quran that the. Promised Messiah based his argument that every claimant to a Divine mission whose teaching came to be accepted, and it moulded and controlled the lives of various people over long periods of history, was indeed from God.