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With Love to the Muslims of the World
"My heart and my soul are enamoured with the beauty of Muhammadsa. May my entire self be sacrificed in the path of the descendants of Muhammadsa" (Majmu‘ah Ishtiharat, vol. 1, p. 97)
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT INHERITED All the same, according to Ahmadiyya understanding of the philosophy of Islam, no one inherits righteousness or virtue from his parents in such a way that the children of the righteous automatically become righteous and the children of the wicked become wicked. The study of religious history does not support this notion. On the contrary, there is irrefutable evidence from the Holy Qur’an that Hadrat Ibrahim, one of the greatest prophets and a pinnacle of light, was born in an extremely idolatrous and ignorant family. The son of Noah, on the contrary, emerged from light and ended up in darkness. The fountain of Islam sprang up from the idolatrous Arabia . The purest form of the Unity of God sprang up from the Arabian desert which had become the breeding ground of ignorance and idolatry and the verse: "Disorder had truly encompassed both the land and the sea," (The Qur’an 30:42), was more applicable to Arabia than to anywhere else in the world. It reminds one of the universal truth expressed in the Holy Qur’an: The supreme principle which overrides every other consideration is as follows: