Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 24
24 mission is to propagate the true teachings of the Holy Quran, what special significance can be attached to the Ahmadiyya Movement? Is not the holy founder of the Movement, in that case, a mere doctor or sufi, and the Movement, itself a mere intellectual movement, of no special importance? This, however, is far from the truth, and to think so would be entirely to misconceive the scope and significance of the Ahmadiyya Movement. We believe that Prophets are of two kinds, those who are law-bearers and those who come to interpret and establish the law and to clear away the corruptions that creep into the system of a religion owing to lapse of time. All religious systems accept this distinction, and it is well illustrated by the succession of Prophets who followed Moses as. The latter was a law-bearer and his contemporary Aaron as and his successors Joshua as and others, including Jesus as , were sent only to establish the law revealed through Moses as. Jesus as himself says, 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. ' 8 The fact that the law of Moses as was in force in the time of Jesus as and was binding on him and his disciples is clearly borne out by the advice which he gave to his disciples and others. He says: 'The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: all, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works, for they say, and do not. ' 9 8 Matthew 5:17 9 Ibid. 23:2-3