Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 28
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 28 Whatever I have written so far regarding the matchlessness of the Divine Word has been intended for certain short-sighted and free-thinking Muslims of this age, who have been rendered arrogant and benighted by sophistic and dubious Western education and have been led into renouncing and denying the matchlessness of the Glorious Quran, which is a necessary condition of its being from Allah. Despite being called Muslims, believing in the Holy Quran, and professing the kalimah [the declaration of faith in Islam], they think, like the faith- less, that the Word of Allah equals the words of an insignificant human being in its external and internal qualities. The statement, َ ہللا مَا قَدَرُوا َ و ٖ حَق َّ قَدْرِہ [‘And they failed to respect Allah as He should be respected’], is applicable to them because they have disregarded all the magnificent powers of God and profound wisdom that must necessarily reflect the countenance of God in everything that proceeds from Him. These verities, however, are so clear and self-evident that they can lead even those who are non-Muslims to readily understand the broad generalization that the word attributed to God has to be matchless and unequalled. When any sensible person reflects over the laws of nature and finds that everything which comes from God, no matter how triv- ial it may seem, is full of great marvels, is created with profound wis- dom, and is beyond the power of man to create, it becomes impossible for him not to admit that man is powerless to create the like of any- thing that emanates from God. Nor can the intellect of any sane person suggest that it is possible for God’s creation to be the associate of God in His being, His attributes or His works. In addition to the above-mentioned arguments, there are many more which make the matchlessness of the Word of God even clearer and manifest it like axiomatic truths to an intelligent and insightful person. One of these arguments is derived from the fact that varying results are experienced, in different ways, from diverse actions. To illus- trate, it should be quite obvious to every reasonable person that if vari- ous writers were to write, utilizing the best of their intellectual prowess, a piece of prose—free from frivolity, falsehood, meanness, unwarranted