Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 30
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 30 you wish, you will not find any flaw in this truth, nor find any chink in it, from any perspective. Now that it has been established from every angle that differences that lie concealed in literary and intellectual prowess will perforce be reflected in one’s speech, and it is on no account possible that those who are most excellent and superior in reason and knowledge should be equal to others in lucidity of expression or exaltedness of meaning, and that no distinction remains between them, this truth entails yet another truth; namely, that the Word of God has to be the most excellent, and superior to, and incomparable vis-à-vis, the word of man—both in its external and internal excellences—because no one’s knowledge can equal the perfect knowledge of God. This is what God refers to in the verse: 1 Part Number 12 — ْمَّلِاَف اْوُبْيِجَتْسَي ْمُكَل اْۤوُمَلْعاَف ۤاَمَّنَا َلِزْنُا ِمْلِعِب ِهّٰللا Meaning that, if the disbelievers fail to produce anything like this Quran, and are unable to take up its challenge, know then that this Word [i. e. , the Quran] has not flowed from man’s knowledge but from the knowledge of God—in comparison to whose boundless and per- fect knowledge all human knowledge is worthless and insignificant. This verse uses a kind of inductive argument to prove the existence of the cause from the existence of the effect. To put it briefly in other words, it says that divine knowledge, on account of its perfection and comprehensiveness, can never be similar to the defective knowledge of man. Thus, it is essential that the word which springs from perfect and incomparable knowledge must itself be perfect and incomparable, and must possess a perfect distinction over the words of man. This is the very perfection that is demonstrated in the Holy Quran. In short, the Word of God should be as clearly different from the word of man as the knowledge, wisdom, and power of God are from those of man. When individual persons, in spite of belonging to the 1. S u rah H u d, 11:15 [Publisher]