Ahmadiyyat Is Not a New Religion — Page 17
17 When Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as appeared in the world and claimed to be the Promised Messiah, he did not bring anything new. That is, the founder of Jamā‘at Ahmadiyya did not claim to establish a new religion. In reality, when Muslims forgot [the true teachings of ] the Holy Quran, and as a result, their love for the Holy Prophet s as waned; when their passion for serving Islam disappeared, and their moral condition deteriorated so much that they avoided practising their faith—at such a time, Allah the Exalted chose a devout and obedient servant of Prophet Muhammad s as to address their spiritual maladies. Raising this individual, God commanded him to serve Islam and bring people under the banner of the Holy Prophet s as. This was the claim made by the Promised Messiah as and the mission of his divine advent. However, when he made this claim, announcing that God Almighty sent him to reform the world and named him ‘The Promised Messiah,’ the people raised objections. They said that Jesus as sits alive in the heavens and will himself return to reform the world. They argued that the Holy Prophet s as had foretold that