Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 375
375 removed to any other country. Only the elect of the Jewish race were held to be eligible for the sacred office of a Prophet, and they were expressly forbidden to preach to other people. Revela- tion was held' to be a gift which could be bestowed only on a member of their own race, and if there appeared any claimant among any other people, he could only be an impostor. Exactly identical views prevailed among the inhabitants of Arya Varta. According to them, Prameshwara is practically only a Raja of their own country, a Raja who does not even know what is happening in other parts of his dominions. The belief is cherished with not a semblance of reason that Prarnesh- wara has taken a fancy to the climate of India and has never taken it in His head even to make a progress in other countries to enquire into the condition of His wretched subjects living in those lands, whom He has left to themselves ever since He created them. FrieodSj ponder and say whether such beliefs are acceptable to reason or whether there is any thing in human nature which responds to such doctrines. I can not see how a rational being can believe on the one hand that God is the Lord of the whole uninerse and assert on the other that He has withdrawn His patronage from the whole world and that His kindness and mercy are limited to one particular country. Is there any thing corresponding to this in the physical world ? If not, why is His spiritual Law then based on partiality? If we exercise our reasoning faculties, we can judge of the merits or demerits of a thing from its results. So judge this question from its results. Need I tell you what must be the out- come of insulting and reviling those holy Prophets whom millions of men from all ranks of society hold in high reverence and whom they think it a pride to follow. There is no community