Message of Peace - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

30MESSAGE OF PEACEIt is essential however that you treat Hindus with sincerityand kindness and let decent behaviour be your second nature.Refrain from all such measures as would cause them pain,except those that are essential or obligatory according to ourfaith. Consequently if the Hindus sincerely accept the propositionof testifying to the truth of our Holy Prophet (maypeace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and of having faithin his truth, then what remains regarding the split on the issueof cows can be done away with. Remember if we arepermitted to eat something, it does not follow that we have toeat it. Everything permissible is not obligatory. There aremany things which we know to be lawful yet we do notnecessarily practice them. To treat Hindus with decency andkindness is one of the important Islamic injunctions—. If forthe sake of achieving a higher goal one forgoes a right, it willnot be against the spirit of the Divine law. To consider somethingto be lawful is one thing, to utilise it is another. Thespirit of piety requires that you abstain from whatever God hasforbidden. To actually pursue the path of gaining His favourand to have the welfare of His creation at heart and to treatothers with goodness and sympathy and to respect all the holyProphets and Messengers from God, and to accept them asreformers and to not discriminate between them and to serveall mankind irrespective of denominations. This is the essentialrequirement of our faith. How can we ever be at peacewith such people who—without justification and withoutregard for the fear of Allah—speak of our Holy Prophet,Hadrat Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah beupon him) with disrespect, and abuse him and refrain notfrom the use of foul language? In truth, I declare that it is