World Crisis and the Pathway to Peace — Page 121
121 C AN M USLIMS I NTEGRATE I NTO W ESTERN S OCIETIES ? Holy Prophet sa said that a time would come when the vast ma- jority of Muslims would forget Islam’s real and pure teachings. According to the prophecy, at such a time Allah would send one person as a Reformer, a Messiah and a Mahdi in order to re-estab- lish true Islam in the world. We, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at, believe the Founder of our Community, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian to be the very person sent in fulfilment of the great prophecy. With the Grace of Allah this Community has flourished and has spread to 202 countries of the world. In each of these countries, local people of all backgrounds and ethnicities have accepted Ahmadiyyat. Apart from being Ahmadi Muslims, they continue to play their roles as loyal citizens of their respective countries. There lies no contradiction or conflict between their love for Islam and their love for their country. In fact, both of these loyalties are inter- twined and linked together. Ahmadi Muslims, wherever they reside, are the most law-abiding citizens in the entire nation. Certainly, I can say without a shadow of doubt that these qualities exist in a good majority of members of our Jam a ‘at. It is due to these attributes that whenever Ahmadi Muslims migrate from one country to another, or in the case where local people have converted to Ahmadiyyat, the Ahmadis never have any concerns about integrating into their new societies; nor do they worry about how they will play their role towards further- ing the wide scope of the national interests of their adopted na- tions. Wherever Ahmadis go they will love their countries like all true citizens should and will spend their lives actively seeking the betterment and progress of their nation. It is Islam that teaches us to live our lives in this way, and indeed it does not just gently