August 2014
August
2014 Webcasting on the world’s first real-time Islamic service at www.virtualmosque.co.uk Christianity and other nations, leading to the conclusion that it is only the Christians who have been delivered and saved, whereas all the other nations are deprived of and without salContents: Page vation. The truth however is just the other way. The Call of the Messiah 1 The Christian nation is itself wholly denuded Gratitude by Nazra Ali 3 and bereft of spirituality, and heavenly favour and grace, as well as the spiritual signs and Judiasm, Islam and Pacifism 6 blessings of salvation. How then, and in what Concept of God in Islam 7 manner, can resemblance and similarity be established? It is absolutely necessary that resemblance should be in (matters) visible and seen so that with this sure knowledge people may be enabled to proceed to the recognition of the right man. If a man should come forward today and claim that he is the like of Moses, The Call of the Messiah and adduce this similarity that spiritually he is by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the deliverer of the nation, but display not any the Promised Messiah and Mahdi palpable sign of giving salvation, will the Christians accept him, believing that he is really the Christians Hollow Claim like of Moses? The correct and true decision, A sane person can understand that this liketherefore, is that Jesus is certainly not the like ness and similarity is the very essence of this of Moses, nor has he set forth any example of prophecy hence, if this resemblance be not in external events by means of which resemmatters seen and perceived, and not of the charblance between him and Moses be established acter of an established fact, or a wonderful sign, in the matter of giving deliverance to the beor a professed principle in the sight of an oppolievers and chastisement to the unbelievers. nent, how can such an absurd claim lead to the The believers, on the contrary, suffered the sevguidance of a seeker-after-truth? That Jesus erest trouble and torment during his time,1 and was a deliverer, is merely a hallow claim of the of whose sting even Christians which Jesus could not rethey have not been main unaffected and able to prove by immune. We shall, rational argument, therefore, be losing nor show in the our faith, and becolour and characcome dishonest in ter of an extraordithe sight of God, if nary wonder. You we admit and affirm may just ask them not that the like of to ascertain and Moses spoken of in know that they are Deuteronomy unable to point out (Torah), is the same any distinctive feaProphet of God who, ture between having suffered eveAmbesh Lake, Pakistan Editors: Shahid Aziz Mustaq Ali
ْ س مِباہللْالرَّ م ٰ ن ْحالرَّ ْ ی م حم ْ ْ