Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

42MESSAGE OF PEACEtask of spreading the Unity of God that, willingly accepting allkinds of hardships like ascetics, they crossed the deserts ofAfrica to disseminate the message of Islam so that their blessedteachings should bear the fruit of truth. Thus they succeededin converting tens of millions of Chinese people to Islam.Then they entered India in the style of dervishes wearingsackcloth and succeeded in converting many to Islam from theArya faith. They even reached the frontiers of Europe andraised loud and clear the message: 26Can you claim in honesty that such as these are really thefruits of the sword of Islam, whose hearts remain infidel whilethe tongues alone profess the faith. Nay! It is the work ofthose whose hearts were filled with the light of faith. Nothingbut God dwelled in their hearts.Now we turn our attention to the study of Islamic teachingsand its true nature. It should be clearly borne in mind that thepredominant purpose of Islamic teachings is to establish theUnity and Majesty of God on earth, to completely eradicateidolatry and to gather all scattered religious denominationsaround a single article of faith and turn them into one people.The religions which appeared before Islam and theProphets and Messengers that came were confined to thereformation of their own respective nation and country;whatever they did for their moral uplift was all aimed for thebenefit of their own people. This is why Jesus as unambiguouslyadmitted that his teachings were for the House of Israelalone. It is reported that when a woman who did not belong26. There is none worthy of worship except Allah. [Publisher]