A Present to Kings — Page 54
( 54 ) will be the time of bringing to life, and not of causing to die. It will tantamount to saying that Jesus will altogether escape death. This, on the one hand, will be contrary to the promise contained in the word, and, on the other, will oblige one to admit the divinity of Jesus, because it is only the person of. God, that is immune from death. In short, the transposition of the words would raise such a multitude of difficult questions as would altogether tear into shrods the faith of Islam, and what Mussalman is there who of his own choice would seek the rain of his faith?. THE THEORY OF THE WANT OF ARRANGEMENT IN. THE HOLY QURAN. . The fact is that, it is only due to a lack of adequate deliberation that the theory of wrong arrangement of words in the Holy Quran has found acceptance among men. . Otherwise as has been said "the sovereign's word is the sovereign word. " The language used by the King of kings in whose presence all the potentates of the earth stand in fear and trembling, and whose dependenta they always are, is altogether free from all such faults, and the words used by. Him must all be right in their own places, and no one is justified to change their order. Any such change, if introduced, is sure to spoil the sense. Just as I have now explained, how if one were to admit a faulty یا عیسی انی متوفیک in the verse arrangement of words, then no time would be left for the fulfilment of the promise of the death of Jesus, because since all the rest of the promises have been fulfilled, the time for the fulfilment of the promise of death, supposing the same to have remained unfulfilled, after all can be assigned r only, from which it would follow that the Messiah would never suffer death. It seems therefore to be the better way not to charge the Divine revelation with any error in the arrangement of words. Such assumption, on the one hand, is derogatory to. God, and on the other is an evidence of the scantiness of one's own knewledge. I shall now proceed to cite to Your Highness