Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

MESSAGE OF PEACE 17man as to become partial only to one country, one people andone language. I fail to understand what logic and rationale it isthat God the Omniscient listens to man’s prayers and supplicationsand understands him in every language, and He is notdispleased with it, yet He abhors to make His word descendupon hearts in any language other than Sanskrit, the languageof the Vedas. This philosophy is found only in the Vedas like awell concealed enigma which no one, as yet, has been able toresolve.Personally, I consider the Vedas to be absolved of everhaving displayed such a philosophy upon any of its pages,which not only goes against common sense, but also blemishesGod with the allegation of miserliness and niggardlyconduct. The reality is that once a long time elapses after therevelation of a Divine Book, the followers of that Book,either out of sheer ignorance, or as a result of some ulteriormotives—by mistake or by intent—feel free to annotate theDivine teachings. Because these annotators are of divergentviews, so, with the passage of time, hundreds of denominationsare born out of one.It is also strange that just as the Aryas believe that revelationhas only been confined to the Arya kith and kin and Aryafaith, and that Sanskrit has been specifically employed by Godas His own language, so too the Jews have similar viewsregarding the chosen Children of Israel and their Books. Theybelieve that the only language of God is Hebrew and theinstitution of revelation has been confined to the House ofIsrael and its land. According to them, anyone who claims tobe a prophet of God while he does not belong to this House