Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 27
27 is necessary first to understand clearly our position with regard to the Holy Quran. Unlike other Muslims we believe that the fountain of Divine knowledge contained in the Holy Quran has not been exhausted, and that the Holy Quran is a complete code. As the work of God is an unlimited treasure house of wonders which are manifested according to the needs of mankind, so should the perfect Word of God be an inexhaustible treasure of wisdom and truth which should provide cures for the moral and spiritual ailments of all times. God does not daily create new things in this world, but every created thing is full of so many virtues and mys- teries, that there is not a single thing in the world con- cerning which it may be said that its secrets have been fully revealed and that it is impossible to discover any new property or virtue in it. Man has not yet been able to lay bare all the mysteries of the human body, let alone a complete knowledge of the virtues and proper- ties of other things. If this is so in the case of material things which are meant to serve comparatively tempo- rary purposes, how much more must this be necessary in the case of the perfect Word of God which relates to the spiritual world. Should we not in the case of the latter be ever prepared to discover in it new and limitless treas- ures of eternal truths and hidden powers? We, therefore, believe—and every sensible person will agree—that a book which claims to be the perfect Word of God must possess this indispensable quality; and if it lacks this quality, its claim to be a perfect Word of God cannot be accepted.