Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 370
370 Hindi! religion persecuted this great -man only because he ad- mitted the truth of the religion of Islam. He had come to bring about a union between Hinduism and Islam but he was not listened to. Had the Hindus acted upon his teachings, all differences between the Hindus and the Muharnrnadaus would have come to an end and they would have been a single nation to-day. Ah, how sorely it grieves us that a great benefactor came into this World and passed away but ignorant men preferred to remain in the dark and refused to be illuminated with his light. He, bowevei'j showed it conclusively that the door to Divine revelation is never closed and that heavenly signs are always manifested at the hands of His chosen servants. He also bore witness that the enmity of Islam is the enmity of light, My experience in this matter is the same as the experience of those sages' of the past. I can also testify that re. velations and inspirations of God are never intercepted, but that He speaks even now as He spoke in the past, and that He listens to the prayers of men in our own days as He listened in days of yore, and that none of His perfect and holy attributes has, or shall ever, become useless. For nearly thirty years I have been favoured with the word of God and He has manifested hundreds of His signs at my hands which have been witnessed by thousands of men and published in books and papers. There is no nation that has not witnessed a sign. In the face of this strong and cumulative evidence, the teaching which is attributed by the Arya Bamaj to the Vedas, viz. , that the door to Divine revelation was closed with the revelation of the Vedas, can by no means be admitted as true or reasonable. This doctrine has wrought another great mischief, for it is on its basis that all other books claiming to be revelations from God are treated ; by the Arya Samaj as fabrications of men,