Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

MESSAGE OF PEACE 35That is: Corruption has appeared on the land and the sea.This verse implies that every nation, whether in a state ofignorance or whether it presumed itself to be wise, was notfree from corruption.Thus it is established on the authority of all testimoniesthat the entire mankind, during the age of ProphetMuhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)were they oriental or occidental, those belonging to the landof Aryas or those who were dwellers of the Arabian desert, soalso those who inhabited islands, had all become moral destitutes.There was not one among them whose relation withGod was without blemish. Evil practices contaminated theentire earth. Why then cannot a man of sound mind understandthis simple matter of commonsense that it was the righttime and the right age, with reference to which human reasoncan accept, that an exceptionally eminent Prophet must beraised.As to the question concerning the reformation which thisProphet brought about with his advent, none can answer likea Muslim with reference to the overwhelming evidence of thegreat reformation brought about by the Holy Prophet ofIslam (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). It isbeyond the scope of a Christian, Jew or Aryan to answer thisquestion with such clarity and with the support of such irrefutableevidence.The first phase of the Holy Prophet’s (may peace andblessings of Allah be upon him) reformation began with thatof the Arabs. The Arabian peninsula was in such a haplessstate that it was hard to refer to its dwellers as humans. Namean evil which they did not exhibit; name a form of idolatry