Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

MESSAGE OF PEACE 27and virtuous behaviour, I do not expect that after this treatythey would permit their tongues to wag. It should be mandatorythat to make the contract binding, ten thousand adultrepresentatives from both parties should sign it.My dear ones, there is nothing like peace and compromise.Let us unite with the blessing of this treaty and be one nation.You know full well that denial 17 on both sides has thrown usapart and that our country is suffering greatly. Visualise howblessed it could prove to testify to each other’s truth. Come,give this a try now. This is the best course for achieving peace.Pursuing any other course would be like ignoring a dangerousabscess merely because it looks clear and shiny, while, inreality, it contains rotten and putrid matter.I need not elaborate on the ever-increasing, mutuallyhypocritical, attitude and discord between the Hindus andMuslims. This is rooted not in religious differences alone, buthas also secondary causes which pertain to worldly ambitions.For instance, the Hindus have always shown their desire tohave more say in the affairs of government and country. Theyhave been demanding that they should, at the very least,always be consulted in such affairs and that the governmentshould always pay special attention to their demands. Theyalso desire that they be posted at the higher ranking offices asthe British are. The Muslims made the blunder of not joiningthis campaign of Hindus out of fear that they were small innumbers. They were afraid that whatever benefit was to behad from such campaigns would be drawn by the majorityHindu community and not the Muslims. So they not only17. i.e. denial of each other’s holy personages. [Publisher]