Our Teaching — Page 22
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as 22 for it desires to bestow upon you such blessings as were given to those before… In truth, God intends to bless you with greater favour than them. God has made you inherit their spiritual and material wealth. However, no other will be your heir until doomsday dawns. God shall never deprive you of the blessings of revelation, and divine inspiration, converse and discourse. He will complete upon you all those blessings He has bestowed on the people of the past. However, I call to witness God and His angels that he who insolently forges a lie against God and falsely claims to be the recipient of divine revelation and wrongly says that he has been blessed with divine discourse, will be destroyed. For such a person speaks untruth about his Creator and acts deceptively; he demon- strates manifest temerity and impudence… 2. The Explanatory Position of the Sunnah The second means of guidance given to Muslims is the Sunnah , that is, the practical example of the Holy Prophet, peace and bless- ings of Allah be upon him, which he demonstrated to elucidate the teachings of the Holy Quran. For example, the number of rak’ats in the five daily prayers are not apparently evident in the Holy Quran. How many rak’ats are to be observed in the morning and how many at other times? However, this has been clarified by the Sunnah. One ought not to be deceived into thinking that the Sunnah and Hadith are one and the same thing. The Hadith were collected after some 100 to 150 years, but the Sunnah existed along with the Holy Quran since the very beginning. After the Holy