There is no god but Allah

We particularly present our slogan of ‘love for all hatred for none’ before others. We do so to remove the misunderstanding that the Ahmadiyya Jama’at and its members have rancour or ill-will towards others or that we consider ourselves better than others. We also use this slogan to make it clear to the world that Islam teaches love, peace and kindness and it is not correct to associate cruelty and viciousness with the faith of Islam. We employ this slogan to signify that we wish to live together by breaking down walls of hatred. When we serve humanity in any way at all or when we disseminate the message of Islam (Tabligh) we do so because we have love for every person in the world and we wish to remove hatred from each heart and instead sow the seeds of love. We do so because this is what our master, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) taught us. We have observed how he agonised owing to his compassion for mankind during his nightly worship of God; indeed he agonised and wept in his prostrations before God to such a degree that God has recorded this agony of his in the Holy Qur’an as a proof for those who have no rancour or malice in the hearts and it would endure till the end of time. This was recorded so that those who were to make objections against him in times to come could reflect over it before raising their objections and those who associate themselves with Islam may try and follow his blessed model. It is indeed stated in the Holy Qur’an: ‘So haply thou wilt grieve thyself to death with sorrow after them if they believe not in this discourse.’ (18:7)

What was it that the people of that time not believe in which agonised the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him)? They did not believe in desisting from associating partners with God, in making man son of God. Shirk or associating partners with God is a sin which God has called unpardonable. It is love and compassion for every human being, even for an idolater, with which one makes practical effort to bring them to the right path and also pray for them. If Ahmadis are to have real insight of ‘love for all hatred for none’, they should try and learn its ways from our master and benefactor, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and by gauging our level of understanding of Unity of God.

An example of this is when the people of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) exceeded all limits in their cruelty and oppression towards him, rather than pray against them, he raised his hands to pray to God and prayed for them to be guided. When other tribes persecuted him he prayed to God, ‘O God, guide the tribe of Dos.’ His love and compassion was not limited to his own. His heart-rending passion was only to establish Unity of God and to save the world from ruin. Today there are a thousand types of idolatries in the world and a large majority of humanity does not believe in the existence of God and there is need to adopt the teaching as taught by the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) in order to establish God’s kingdom and His Unity in the world.

We should not feel smug by merely raising slogans that the world appreciates and through which we are praised in various places. We should be mindful that this slogan is just one source to attain the broader objective for which man was created. Our humanitarian works, our promotion and practice of love and our rejection of hatred and our hatred for hatred itself is to attain God’s love and to establish Unity of God. We do not hate any individual, rather we hate satanic practices and we feel compassion for those who follow these practices and it is owing to this compassion that we wish to take them away from these foul practices and save them from Divine chastisement. Our love for worldly people is not borne of any worldly motive, we simply wish to eliminate thei