Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 20
20 The Ahmadiyya Community is thus to be distin- guished from other religious communities and sects by the fact that the members of this community, having considered the appointed signs for the advent of the Prophet and the Reformer of the latter days, have ac- cepted the claims of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , and that unlike so many other peoples they no longer await the advent of the Messenger of the Latter Days. I proceed now to set out the object of the advent of the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement as described by himself. He says: 'The task for which God has appointed me is, that I should, by removing the obstacles which have been set up between man and his Maker, re- establish in the hearts of men love and devotion to God, and by making manifest the truth, should put an end to all religious wars and strife and thus lay the foundations of abiding peace, and should ac- quaint mankind with the spiritual truths which it had forgotten, and should demonstrate to the world the true spiritual life which had been displaced by material desires, and should in my own life mani- fest those Divine powers with which man has been endowed, but which can be manifested only through prayer and devotion; and above all that I should permanently re-establish that bright and pure Unity of God purified from all polytheistic