Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 385
385 God. Our Holy Prophet is that chosen Prophet of God to aid whom and to show whose honour, God has shown great wonders to the world. Is it not the hand of God that has made 200,000,000 Muhammadans prostrate themselves on his threshold ? Though every Prophet had some proof of his truth, yet the proofs of the truth of the Holy Prophet which the world has witnessed and is still witnessing have no parallel in the history of any other Prophet. When the earth becomes corrupt with sin and evil, and mis- chief and transgression out-balance virtue, then the mercy of God demands that a Messenger should be a raised to reform the world. It cannot be denied that disease calls for a physician and the Hindu gentlemen can easily understand this. They believe that the Veda was sent when there was no flood of sin- fulness on the earth. So when God sent a guidance at a time when the earth was free from corruption, was it not much more necessary that He should have raised a Reformer at a time when a strong gale of sinfulness was blowing with great violence in every country ? I do not think any of you is ignorant of the historical fact that when the throne of Prophethood was graced with the Holy Prophet, it was a period oi such darkness that no corner of the earth was free from vice and corruption, and, as Pandit Daya Nand himself bears witness, even in Ayra Yarta idolatry had taken the place of God-worship and corruption had found its way into the Vedic Dharrna. To the corruption prevailing at the time when the Holy Pro- phet made his appearance, Rev. Pfender, a European Missionary,. also bears witness. He admits in his work, Mizan-ul-Haq, that of all peoples the Christians were the most corrupt, and their immoralities and vices were a disgrace to Christianity. The Quran itself shows its need by saying ;^. l ^ & ^ I ^ ) 3 i. e,, "both land and sea have become corrupt. " This