Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

MESSAGE OF PEACE 7man should follow the virtuous attributes of God Who is theFountainhead of all that is essential for survival.God commences the Holy Qur’an with the followingverse which is contained in surah al-Fatihah: 3That is, all perfect and holy attributes belong exclusively toAllah, Who is the Lord of all the worlds.The word ‘alam comprises all different peoples, all differentages and all the different countries. The commencement of theHoly Qur’an with this verse was designed to counter the viewsof such people as attempted to monopolise God’s unlimitedprovidence for their own nation and imagined that the othernations did not belong to God or that having created theseother people, God discarded them as being of no consequence,or else perhaps they were shelved to oblivion by Him, or (Godforbid) they were not even created by Him.To illustrate this further, we refer to the view of the Jewsand the Christians, still commonly held by them, that all theProphets and Messengers of God belonged only to the Houseof Israel, and that God completely ignored the religious andspiritual requirements of other people, as though He weredispleased with them and that, despite finding them in manifesterror and ignorance, He showed least concern for theirspiritual welfare. As is also written in the Gospels that JesusChrist (peace be on him) observed that he had been sent onlyfor the lost sheep of Israel. 43. (al-Fatihah, 1:2) [Publisher]4. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lostsheep of the house of Israel. (Matthew, 15:24) [Publisher]