Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam — Page 224
− 'A time will come when my followers will become divided into seventy-three sects. All of them except one will deserve the fire. ' (Tirmidhi abwabul ‘iman bab iftaraq hadhi hil ummati) − − − − − − − Thus, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi distinguished his as − followers from the other Muslims by conferring on them the title of Ahmadi Muslims. ± − Hadrat Mu leh Ma‘ud, Khalifatul Masih II writes regarding the s ra ± ± ± ± − − − ± name, ' Ahmadiyyat': ± "---The names Ahmadi, Ahmadiyyat, etc. , do not point to a new ± − ± religion. Ahmadis are Muslims and their religion is Islam. The slightest ± − − deviation from it, they consider wrong and degrading. True, Ahmadis have ± − adopted the names, , Ahmadiyyat Ahmadiyya Movement, Ahmadiyya ± ± ± Jama'at and so on. But adoption of a name is not the adoption of a new − religion. The name Ahmadiyyat is the name of reinterpretation or a ± restatement of the religion of the Holy Qur’an. It is a restatement presented − under Divine guidance by the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement. The ± names are merely to distinguish Ahmadi, Ahmadiyyat, Ahmadiyya Jama'at ± − ± ± − Ahmadi Muslims from other Muslims and Ahmadi interpretation from ± − ± − other interpretations of Islam. . . . − --- Different groups of Muslims, out of regard for their special beliefs and outlook, have adopted different names. It becomes necessary for us to adopt a name to distinguish ourselves from others. The best name we could adopt was the name or. This name has a Ahmadi Ahmadiyyat ± − ± significance for our time. Ours is the time appointed for the propagation, all over the world, of the Universal Message of the Holy Prophet --- It is sa the time for the diffusion of the Praises of God and for the spread of knowledge of His bounty and beauty, and the time for the manifestation of the attribute of , the attribute of having had Ahmadiyyat Muhammadiyyat ± ± its manifestation already. A better name could not have been adopted. " (Invitation to Ahmadiyyat, The London Mosque, 1980, p 3-4) ± 224