Unity of God — Page 12
12 Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmood Ahmad were devoted to serving God’s creation. The same phenomenon can be observed in every religion. Whenever people’s religious and spiritual condition declined, God sent individuals to bear the responsibility of reformation. Considering that all people received an identical form of remedy in their state of decadence, why would we reject the premise that these reformers were all sent by the same source? Once an individual accepts this fact, his mind cannot imagine a ‘national’ god. Instead, it conceptualises the Lord of all the Worlds. Indeed, the idea that God maintained a relationship solely with one nation—that He sent a prophet among one people when they became corrupt, but disregarded other nations and sent them no prophets—evokes the concept of a national god. This is what led people to believe they had distinct gods and characterise them differently. They even began to write that their god prevailed over the god of another nation. That is, whenever a people triumphed, they declared it a victory of their god. This erroneous concept arose from not acknowledging that divine reformers appeared among every people and that God continuously guided them. It sparked relentless conflicts that ran contrary to the. If people accept that every community