What is Ahmadiyyat?

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 84

( 84 ) prayer of a true Ahmadi 1s very different from the prayer of an ordinary Muslim. The outward fonn is the same. The prayers and invocations used are the same, but the soul and substance are quite ·different. When an Ahmadi ep. gages in Namaz, he has his eye on its real purpose. His Namaz is a means of ·promoting his contact with God. If it is asked, Do not others, say their Namaz ·with the same intent?', my reply is 'Certainly. noe. If stock is taken of the beliefs which have been advocated. among Muslims for some time, it would be found that Muslims as a body have come to hold, that direct contact with God is no kmg~r possible. 'They hold that tbe Voice of God can be heartl no more, nor can man beseech God and implore Him successfully for a change in the course of events. For over one rmndred years now Muslims have denied the _possibility of divitte reYelatiOn. :Befor~ this,. ·Mns. Jiim. . ;;