Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

18MESSAGE OF PEACEand does not speak their language is (God forbid) definitely aliar.Is it not then a strange coincidence, that both thesepeoples have followed the same path in their dogmatic assertions?Likewise, the followers of many other religions entertainsimilar views, as for example, the Zoroastrians, who claimthat their religion originated billions of years before the Vedicrevelation. From this it transpires that the tendency (toconfine the revelation of God to one's own language or theBook) is based merely on prejudice and ignorance. This isfurther abetted by the fact that in the dark ages of the past,people had no access to the information concerning peopleand countries beyond the boundaries of their homelands. Thislack of knowledge on their part led them to draw the wrongconclusions. They had witnessed that God had bestowedupon them a Divine teaching in the form of a Book, and theyknew that Messengers of God had been selected from amongthemselves; hence their erroneous impression that they hadbeen the only people so favourably treated by God, while therest of the world was unfortunate in being deprived of thisblessing.This erroneous view has done a lot of damage to theworld, and it has worked as a seed of mutual enmity andmalice which continues to grow. For a long time, it sohappened that a people remained hidden from others and onecountry remained concealed and veiled from the other to theextent that the scholars of the Arya faith used to believe thatthere was no inhabitation beyond the Himalayas.When God lifted the veil, it was already too late for themto mend. By this time they were already fixed in their