Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 34
34 All Nations Received Revelation. There is another important question which relates to the person of God and affect alike the relationship which subsists between God and man and that which subsists between man and man; viz. , which nations have been the recipients of revelation and on what principles were they selected by God to receive His revelation? Without the solution of this question, the reform which the Promised Messiah had attempted in relation to other questions relating to the Being of God, would not have been complete. With regard to this question he pointed out that, as God is the Lord of the whole Universe, His Guidance could not be confined to any particular nation. As He is the Lord of all mankind and has equipped all of them with thinking minds, He could not de- prive any nation of His Guidance. As the Holy Quran says:— “ There is no nation but has had its warner. ” God has sent His messengers among all nations and in all ages, and as the Sun light up the whole world, the light of revelation has ever lit up the darkest corners of the earth. If today we cannot discover the light of revelation among a particular people, it does not mean that no prophets have appeared among them, but that they have allowed their national traditions to die out. In pur- suance of this doctrine he testified to the truth of Krishna, Ramchandra and Buddha, the prophets of India, and Zoroaster, the prophet of Persia, and described the rejection of their claims as, in a sense, amounting to a denial of the universal Providence of God. This is a doctrine which was not to be found among the teachings of any sect or religion, and, as a matter of fact, the majority of people believed that revelation had been confined to the founders of their respective religions, and even those who believed that revelation had been vouchsafed to people of other religions did so, more as a sort of personal tribute to the founders