Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 250
^250 ever afterwards? My opponents would fain answer this question in the affirmative, but I say this belief is a disgrace to the Holy Quran and the noble religion of Islam. This is in fact my only difference with, them. I say that the blessings and the fruits of Islam are still the same as they were in the time of our Holy Prophet, that Almighty God manifests the signs of His: power as He manifested them before and that He speaks as He spoke ere now, but my opponents deny all these facts and say that the blessings of our Holy Prophet are left behind and shall never more be witnessed. Ah ! they are not yet aware of the dignity of the Holy Prophet, of the grandeur of the. Holy Quran and of the glory of God. Islam is a living religion, the Quran a living book, our God a living God, and our Prophet a living Prophet : how can their lights and blessings be then deacl ? Ah! what greater calamity than this that we should believe that the Muslims must for ever be deprived of the blessings of Divine revelation while the Holy Quran calls them the! best of all people. What for should they pray then if their prayers are not to be attended with fruits and blessings? Why should they seek if they are told that the object they seek for can never be attain-ed? To tell them tq pray in such a case is just like telling a man to dig a well inform- ing him at the same time that he would never come to water, should he dig ever so deep. . Certainly all exertions in the path of God must cease if they cannot bear any fruit. If there is no answer from God, why should man pray? In short, unless it is admitted that Divine revelation is a blessing to which a true Muslim can always have. access, neither would Islam be a true religion, nor would the Muslims be the best of all people. But Almighty God has informed me in a revelation which I have published in the Brahin-i-Ahmadiyya that "every blessing pro- ceeds from Muhammad, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him, and blessed is the Master as well as the disciple. " (Vol. IY B. B. 1905. )