Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 282
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 282 way? Is there not a single soul among you who can understand the fine point that denying the Holy Quran amounts, in fact, to attacking the Gracious God? Is it not your misfortune that you turn away from the very book that proves the peerlessness of the attributes of God, points toward His existence, promotes the belief that He is Immaculate and Holy, propagates His Oneness, and re-establishes the long-lost doc- trine of His Tau hi d? Gentlemen! The matchlessness and truthfulness of the Holy Quran has now been fully manifested; it cannot be concealed no matter how you try. As you know, no one can stop the fruit from growing and ripening when the season comes. Similarly, the time has come for the Quran’s truth to become manifest, and no one can stop it now. So do not throw dust at the moon lest it fall right back into your own eyes! Some Christians, failing to cite the Gospel as a parallel, point to Fai di ’s Maw a ridul Qalam and assert that this book of Fai di is written entirely in undotted letters;1 therefore, it is also like the Holy Quran, or even better, in fluency and eloquence. Alas, these ignorant ones do not even understand that it is a frivolous work that falls outside the sphere of true fluency and eloquence; nor does adhering to such a practice render a work to be inimitable and matchless. Indeed, it is quite a sim- ple and easy task to compose a written work without dots. It is not an enterprise that should be hard for a man to accomplish. Accordingly, many authors have written compositions in Arabic and Persian orthog- raphies without dots, and still do so. Indeed, there also exist such com- positions by some scribes that employ only letters with dots, and avoid the letters without dots altogether. But the essential features and pecu- liarities that are specific to the Holy Quran’s fluency and eloquence are such that a wise person will readily understand with full conviction that this Holy Word is beyond the sphere of human powers. For, as I 1. In the Arabic alphabet, there are some letters like ب ( b a ) and ت ( t a ) which have dots in them, and there are others like ل ( l a m ) and ع ( ‘ain ) which do not have any dots. [Publisher]