Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 377
377 and indifferent to the allure of the world. They long for the glory and triumph of Islam and do not care for anything else. To refuse to accept his claim in the presence of all this evi - dence cannot be pleasing to God. Anyone who loves Islam and the Holy Prophet s as and is prepared to place the interests of Islam above all personal considerations will not hesitate to accept the truth after it has become so evident. If the arguments which I have presented are insufficient to prove the truth of his claim, then, may I ask, what other argu - ments are there through which the truth of past Prophets was established and on whose basis they are accepted and revered? If there are not even as many arguments as I have presented above to prove the truth of any past Prophet, (excepting, of course, the Holy Prophet s as ), then why do we even believe in them? True faith is not inherited from parents or accepted as a tradition; it is acquired through thought and deliberation. If this is true, then we have to accept one of two things: either we deny all past Prophets, or we accept the claim of the Promised Messiah as. Any intelligent and insightful person would surely choose the second alternative and not hesitate to accept the Promised Messiah as who has come to establish the truth of the Holy Prophet s as of Islam, and to lead Islam to triumph, and to make Muslims true Muslims once more. To accept the Will of God and to subscribe to His will results in countless blessings. To resist His will or to go against it yields no blessings. The condition of Islam today is pitiable indeed. Nobody who loves Islam can view its current state with equanimity; He will do all he can for its success and strive to secure it against all dan - ger. The enemies of Islam have become so hardened that they can