The Ocean of Light — Page 83
83 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS among us who will not attest to this. Ask anyone, high or low! Misguided sects have mushroomed, depravity is rampant, the bigoted consume filth like animals feeding on dung. This reality of the latter days was foretold by our Lord and Master, the Best of Mankind, the Best of Prophets [ Hadrat Muhammad s as ]. He said that surely, you will follow the ways of those who were before you just like one footstep follows another. Here the Holy Prophet was explaining that the extent of falsehood and deception amongst the Muslims would become similar to the previous peoples. Explaining that inch by inch, centimetre by centimetre every habit would be adopted, so much so that if they were to enter the burrow of a lizard, you would enter after them. The scholars of Islam are aware that the Israelites splintered into seventy-one sects; therefore, based on these Hadith we can conclude that the sects of the Ummah of our Lord and Master, the Seal of the Prophets will