Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
12MESSAGE OF PEACEIn precarious times such as these I invite you to truce, asreconciliation is urgently required by both nations. Many acalamity is befalling the world; there are earthquakes andthere are famines. Over and above the earthquakes andfamines we continue to be plagued by the bubonic pestilence.Moreover the Divine revelations which God has conveyed tome further confirm that if people do not mend their evil waysand practices and do not repent their sins, the world will befurther visited by other severe calamities. One misery will notend before another follows. Eventually people will reach theend of their tether and will wonder what is happening tothem and what next is in store for them. They will be pushedto the edge of their senses by calamity upon calamity. So takeheed my countrymen, before such evil days confront you. It ishighly essential that Hindus and the Muslims should come toterms with each other and if either of the two parties is guiltyof such excesses as obstruct the path of peace, they are betteradvised to desist from pursuing that course. Otherwise, theentire blame for the sin of mutual enmity will be borne by thefaulting party.If someone questions the possibility of reachingreconciliation while religious differences are playing such anegative role, throwing hearts further apart, then my answerwould be to say that difference in matters of religion can onlyplay a negative role when it disregards the dictates of justice,wisdom and the well-tested human values. It is to avoid thisdanger that man has been fully fortified with a clear sense ofjudgement and common sense. He should thus always carve apath for himself which never deviates from the path of justiceand good sense. Again it should not violate the commonly
MESSAGE OF PEACE 13experienced human sensibilities. Also it should beremembered that day to day petty differences cannot obstructthe course of reconciliation. Only those differences candestroy the process of reconciliation which result in insultingand blasphemous attitudes by one towards the reveredMessengers and revealed holy books of the other.The good news in all this for those who seek reconciliationis that all of the Islamic teachings are also found in thedifferent parts of Vedic teaching. For instance, although thenewborn branch of Vedic faith entitled Arya Samaj teachesthat after the revelation of the Vedas, communication fromGod to man was sealed, the great avatars born in the Hindufaith from time to time, who have millions upon millions offollowers in this country, have doubtlessly broken that seal byclaiming to be recipients of Divine revelation. One such electDivine representative, who is greatly revered in this countryand Bengal, is known as Sri Krishna. He claimed to be therecipient of God’s Word and his followers not only believehim to be a Messenger but some consider him to be Godpersonified. There is no doubt, however, that Sri Krishna wasa Messenger and a representative of God in his time, and Godconversed with him.Likewise, from among the Hindu people of the LatterDays was one named Baba Nanak, whose saintliness hasbecome a byword in this country. His followers, the Sikhs,number no less than two million. Baba Sahib openly claims tobe the recipient of revelation in the Janam Sakhis 7 and theGranth 8 . In one Janam Sakhi he states that he had received7. Autobiographies of Baba Nanak. [Publisher]8. The Holy Book of the Sikhs. [Publisher]
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12MESSAGE OF PEACEIn precarious times such as these I invite you to truce, asreconciliation is urgently required by both nations. Many acalamity is befalling the world; there are earthquakes andthere are famines. Over and above the earthquakes andfamines we continue to be plagued by the bubonic pestilence.Moreover the Divine revelations which God has conveyed tome further confirm that if people do not mend their evil waysand practices and do not repent their sins, the world will befurther visited by other severe calamities. One misery will notend before another follows. Eventually people will reach theend <strong>of</strong> their tether and will wonder what is happening tothem and what next is in store for them. They will be pushedto the edge <strong>of</strong> their senses by calamity upon calamity. So takeheed my countrymen, before such evil days confront you. It ishighly essential that Hindus and the <strong>Muslim</strong>s should come toterms with each other and if either <strong>of</strong> the two parties is guilty<strong>of</strong> such excesses as obstruct the path <strong>of</strong> peace, they are betteradvised to desist from pursuing that course. Otherwise, theentire blame for the sin <strong>of</strong> mutual enmity will be borne by thefaulting party.If someone questions the possibility <strong>of</strong> reachingreconciliation while religious differences are playing such anegative role, throwing hearts further apart, then my answerwould be to say that difference in matters <strong>of</strong> religion can onlyplay a negative role when it disregards the dictates <strong>of</strong> justice,wisdom and the well-tested human values. It is to avoid thisdanger that man has been fully fortified with a clear sense <strong>of</strong>judgement and common sense. He should thus always carve apath for himself which never deviates from the path <strong>of</strong> justiceand good sense. Again it should not violate the commonly
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