Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya-Parts1-2

8 Barahin-e-ahmadiyya
Honourable elders of Islam! From your own knowledge and
experience, you cannot be unaware of the ills of the present age,
the details of which are a painful story indeed. Nor can you be
unaware of all the forms of corruption that have taken root in
people’s hearts or how they are being led astray by evil suggestions,
temptations and misguidance. And it is all because people are
unaware of the arguments for the divine origin of Islam. The few
who are educated have acquired their knowledge from schools
or institutions that impart no religious knowledge. Thus the crucial
part of their lives, in which they can employ their faculties of
thought, reflection and meditation to the best advantage, is lost in
pursuit of other arts and sciences, leaving them completely ignorant
of religious principles.
If such people are not informed sooner rather than later of the
arguments in support of the divine origin of Islam, they either end
up as materialistic worldly creatures, caring the least for the Faith,
or as atheists and apostates. This is not something hypothetical,
for I myself have seen that the scions of noble families have been
baptized and have taken to the churches, solely because of their
ignorance of the teachings of Islam. Had not God, in His infinite
grace, helped Islam, and had He not protected the True Faith
through the forceful discourses and writings of Muslim scholars,
people would have even forgotten in which country our Holy
Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was born.
This is especially so in these tumultuous times when perversity
and corruption are rife. If Muslim scholars—who are valiantly
and vigorously debating with every disbeliever and atheist—were
to give up this service to Islam, all the important traditions of
Islam would soon disappear; instead of the traditional salutation