Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 112
112 practical illustrations of this attribute of God. He has discovered for us secrets of knowledge which were either (1) hidden from the eyes of the world, or (2) were acquired by him in an extraordinary manner or (3) were beyond the power of man to acquire. As an illustration of the first of these, I need only refer to his teachings which I have already partly discussed and portions of which I shall discuss later on. Here I shall illustrate the second and the third. Most people are probably unaware that the Promised Messiah as was born in that part of India, which was then under the rule of the Sikhs under whom knowledge and learning were at a discount. He never attended school for a single day, but read some elementary books with private tutors. When, however, God raised him to prophethood, He bestowed on him, during the course of a single night, such thorough knowledge of the Arabic language that the learned men of Egypt and Arabia could not rival him in it. He wrote books in Arabic and repeatedly challenged his oppo- nents to produce the like of them if they considered them to be the result of ordinary education and instruc- tion, but none of them dared take up this challenge in India, Egypt, Syria or Arabia. Is this not a convincing proof of God’s Omniscience? Can the acquisition of such knowledge be the result of man’s fancy? The Punjab is so far away from Arabia and is at such a distance from all recognized centres of learning, that it is impossible that the Promised Messiah as could have acquired his knowledge of Arabic from other people. But even if it were possible, how did he acquire such knowledge as enabled him to write, in the Arabic lan-