MOHAMMAD: A PROPHET FOR OUR TIME

(Ahmadiyya Times acknowledges borrowing the title for this article form the popular book of the same title 'Muhammad; A Prophet For Our Time' by Keren Armstrong)

"Truth will prevail. A new bright day will dawn again for Islam. The same as it did before. The sun of Islam will rise in full bloom, as it did before." (Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, The Promised Messiah)

Is Quran Full of Verses Spewing Hate?
By Waseem A. Sayed, PhD.,
Chino Hills, CA - USA
October 12, 2009

If one were to believe the meanings of certain verses of the Holy Quran that the hate-mongers attacking Islam throw out then Islam should have died a long time ago. Logically speaking, how could something as hateful and totally unacceptable survive this long? - Not just survive, flourish in fact.

The truth is that daily more and more hate and lies are propagated in the media about Islam, the Holy Quran and Muhammad, (peace and blessings of God be upon him) and the people behind these efforts, the ones who instigate and seed these efforts, do so for motives which only God knows for certain. All I can say is that heaping abuse on the truth makes no difference to the truth. Rejecting the truth harms only the deniers of truth. Even when people believed the earth to be the center of the universe and thought all revolved around it, the truth was unaffected and undiminished in value.

If Islam, the Holy Quran, and Muhammad are as false and as full of hate as Jihad Watch and Daniel Pipes and a horde of others would have us believe, surely, no effort of theirs would have been needed to end their existence centuries earlier.

By an orientalist, I have not found a truer, sounder, more logical assessment of Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him) than so eloquently summarized by Thomas Carlyle [May 8, 1840] in the beginning of his famous Lecture: THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM.

"Our current hypothesis about Mahomet [Mohammad], that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one. The lies, which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man, are disgraceful to ourselves only. When Pococke inquired of Grotius, Where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! It is really time to dismiss all that. The word this man spoke has been the life-guidance now of a hundred and eighty millions of men these twelve hundred years. These hundred and eighty millions were made by God as well as we. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour, than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the Almighty have lived by and died by? I, for my part, cannot form any such supposition. I will believe most things sooner than that. One would be entirely at a loss what to think of this world at all, if quackery so grew and were sanctioned here."

"Alas, such theories are very lamentable. If we would attain to knowledge of anything in God's true Creation, let us disbelieve them wholly! They are the product of an Age of Scepticism: they indicate the saddest spiritual paralysis, and mere death-life of the souls of men: more godless theory, I think, was never promulgated in this Earth. A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! If he do not know and follow truly the properties of mortar, burnt clay and what else be works in, it is no house that he makes, but a rubbish-heap. It will not stand for twelve centuries, to lodge a hundred and eighty millions; it will fall straightway. A man must conform himself to Nature's laws, _be_ verily in communion with Nature and the truth of things, or Nature will answer him, No, not at all! Speciosities are specious--ah me!--a Cagliostro, many Cagliostros, prominent world-leaders, do prosper by their quackery, for a day. It is like a forged bank-note; they get it passed out of _their_ worthless hands: others, not they, have to smart for it. Nature bursts up in fire-flames, French Revolutions and such like, proclaiming with terrible veracity that forged notes are forged."

It would be good to hear from someone a rebuttal of the logic of Carlyle, especially now that the house that Muhammad built has survived fourteen centuries and houses under its roof some one thousand six hundred million people! I am moved to repeat his assessment. How well he had put it:

"A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! If he do not know and follow truly the properties of mortar, burnt clay and what else be works in, it is no house that he makes, but a rubbish-heap. It will not stand for twelve centuries, to lodge a hundred and eighty millions; it will fall straightway. A man must conform himself to Nature's laws, _be_ verily in communion with Nature and the truth of things, or Nature will answer him, No, not at all!"

The truth will prevail! That is the definition of truth. And this is what God has stated in the Holy Quran:

And say, ‘Truth has come and falsehood has vanished away. Falsehood does indeed vanish away fast. [17:82]

Say, ‘The Truth has come, and falsehood could neither originate any good nor reproduce it.’ [34:50]

God has decreed: ‘Most surely I will prevail, I and My Messengers.’ Verily, God is Powerful, Mighty. [58:22]

He it is Who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all religions, even if those who associate partners with God hate it. [61:10]

In his book: The Victory of Islam; written in 1890, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahamd, on whom be peace, the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, had prophecied that the time for the establishment of the promise made by God in the Holy Quran with regard to the global supremacy of Islam had dawned. He wrote:

"Truth will prevail. A new bright day will dawn again for Islam. The same as it did before. The sun of Islam will rise in full bloom, as it did before."

All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds!