Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 369
369 country and whose followers are known as Sikhs and number not less than two millions. Nanak openly claimed to be the recipient of Divine revelation and evidence of this is met with in the Grantb as well as in the Janam Sakhis. In one place he says that it was revealed to him by God that Islam was a true religion. It was for this reason that he performed a pilgrimage to Mecca and obeyed the injunctions of the Islamic law. It is doubtless true that miracles and signs were witnessed at his hands, and it is equally true that he was one of the chosen and righteous servants of God whom God had made to drink deep of His love. He was born among the Hindus to bear witness to the fact that Islam was a Divine religion. Any one who sees his sacred relics at Dera Baba Nanak which bear the clearest testimony DO his profession of the Islamic formula of faith jjj ) J y*, ; o^sw* &JJ ) 3) J *J j 3) ? i, g ti> "There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Apostle of God," or those at Guru Har Sahai in the Ferozepur District among which is the Holy Quran, shall not hesitate for a moment to declare that Nanak had, with the help of a pure heart and a pure nature and sincere exertions in the way of God, found out the deep secret which remained hidden from the eyes of the Pundits. Thus Nanak, by his claim to be the recipient of Divine revelation and by the signs which he showed, completely refuted the doctrine according to which no revelation can be granted after the Vedas. It is Undoubtedly true that the person of Nanak was an embodiment of Divine mercy for the Hindus, and he was, as it were, the last avatar of the Hindu religion who tried hard to purge the hearts of the Hindus of the great hatred which they entertained against Islam, but to the great misfortune of this country the Hindus did not avail themselves of the holy teachings of Nanak. On the other hand, the Pundits of the