Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 168
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 168 Holy Quran has made about its inimitability is not out of place. It is an issue of the same law of nature, adherence to which constitutes the intelligence of man, and deviation from which is the sign of stupidity. Reflect over it with fairness and tell me whether or not according to the law of nature the Word of God must necessarily be matchless. If accord- ing to you it is not necessary, and others’ partnership in God’s work is also permissible, then why do you not openly state that you have res- ervations even about the Oneness of God and His being without asso- ciates? Can you not understand the obvious truth that the Oneness of God can remain intact only as long as all of His attributes are free from being shared by others? If man can produce the like of God’s Word, it means everything pertaining to God has been fully comprehended and the entire mystery of Godhood has been disclosed. 1 Now, at this point, in the interest of the public at large, I would like to explain, as a general rule, the literary standard at which a discourse becomes eligible for being called ‘incomparable’ and from God. I shall also select a s u rah from the Holy Quran as an illustration and prove that it fully and perfectly possesses all of the qualities of incomparabil- ity which have been set out in the general rule. If someone still refuses to accept these qualities of incomparability, the burden lies upon him to produce some other discourse which possesses all these qualities of incomparability. It should be clear that if a discourse fully resembles something from among the things that have proceeded from God and are the handiwork of His power of creation—that is to say, it combines in it the external and internal wonders in the same way that they exist in something that has been created by God—it can then be said that such a discourse 1. Please see Sub-Footnote Number Three on pages 273–424. In the original Urdu edition of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, the Promised Messiah as presented this sub-footnote along with Footnote Number Eleven. For the ease of English readers, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V aba decided that it should be presented as its own section after Footnote Number Eleven. [Publisher]