Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 58
58 the Holy Prophet s as by Muslims themselves is that they have pre - sented before the opponents of Islam such a false image of the Holy Prophet s as —who was mercy personified and would never hurt even an ant—that their hearts have become filled with preju - dice and animosity towards him s as. I hear the cry of Jihad from all sides, but the Jihad that Allah and the Holy Prophet s as beckon us towards is completely different from the Jihad to which people are now being called. The Jihad to which the Holy Quran invites us is: 53 اَلَف ِعِطُت َنْيِرِفٰكْلا َو ْمُهْدِهاَج ٖهِب اًداَهِج اًرْيِبَك So obey not the disbelievers and fight against them by means of it (the Quran) a great fight. Is it the same Jihad that Muslims are invited to join today? How many are there who, with the Quran in their hands, go out to do Jihad with the disbelievers? Is the Quran so utterly devoid of any inherent excellence that it is unable to draw people to itself ? If this were true, it would be impossible to prove the truth of Islam. To believe this would mean that, while the words of mortals have the power to grip people’s hearts, the Word of God (Quran) is so ineffectual that it cannot conquer the hearts of men without the use of the sword! The sword has never been able to conquer hearts, and Islam strongly condemns the idea of accepting a reli - gion out of fear or greed. Allah says: اَذِا َكَءٓاَج َنْوُقِفٰنُمْلا اْوُلاَق ُدَهْشَن َكَّنِا ُلْوُسَرَل ِهّٰللا١ۘ َو ُهّٰللا ُمَلْعَي َكَّنِا ٗهُلْوُسَرَل١ؕ َو ُهّٰللا ُدَهْشَي َّنِا 54 َنْيِقِفٰنُمْلا َنْوُبِذٰكَل۰۰ۚ