Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 47
47 to the wicked and the rebellious," and some of them believed by the grace of God, and others re- mained in their error. So travel round the world and you will find that God has sent His Prophets to all nations and you will learn the end of those who had rejected the Prophets. ' 17 It is related in one of the traditions that the Holy Prophet sa was once asked whether God had revealed anything in the Persian tongue and he replied, 'Yes, God spoke to a Prophet in Persian. ' Consider, therefore, how Islam has, by offering this explanation of the expression Rabbul ‘ A lam i n , which is common to the followers of all religions, discovered to the world a new truth, and laid the foun- dations of the common brotherhood of man. Thereafter a Muslim can have nothing but reverence for the foun- ders and leaders of other religions. For him, Krishna as , Ramchandra as , Buddha as , Zoroaster as and Confucius as are as much the Prophets of God as Moses as and Jesus as , the only difference being that as the latter are mentioned in the Holy Quran, there is a greater amount of certainty concerning them. This fact fundamentally affects the attitude of Islam towards other religions. As soon as a Muslim hears of an old religion of which he was not aware before, or learns about an old Prophet of whom he had never heard before, he is not troubled, as if another rival had appeared in the field, but welcomes the discovery as a fresh proof of the truth of Islam and a 17 Al-Na h l, 16 :37.