Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

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]