Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 297
SuB-Footnote Number Three 297 realize that the Vedas do not have even such power of expression as would enable them to clearly state their own objectives, let alone the ability to compete with the exalted eloquence of the Holy Quran. For, given the opportunity, every just person can appreciate that it is abso- lute folly to expect a book—which cannot even plainly and clearly explain its own meanings—to have any degree of eloquence. If the Vedas can compete with the Holy Quran in this easy way, then perhaps they could also compete with the Holy Quran over the subtle points that the Holy Quran claims no other book can compete with. However, if the Vedas of the A ryah people are rendered here senseless and motionless like the dead, then to take pride in such Vedas and claim that they can compete against the lofty verities and subtle points of the Holy Quran is tantamount to ignorance of the highest degree. Here, readers are also reminded that Hindu research scholars have neither included their Upanishads in the Vedas, nor do they regard them to be the word of God. They have clearly stated that they are the personal views of certain people. This is the opinion of Pundit Dayanand and all renowned and learned pundits agree with his opinion. Hence, I have deemed it unnecessary to do any research into their contents. For, if their contents are not found in the Vedas and, according to Pundit Dayanand and other research scholars, they are not even in accord with the teaching of the Vedas and are in fact useless and irrelevant foot- notes that the ignorant Brahm u s have added to the later, then to men- tion here whatever defects may exist in the Upanishads is tantamount to unnecessarily prolonging this discussion. Nevertheless, it is advisable to cite some shurt i s from the Vedas which the followers of A ryah Samaj believe to be the word of Parmeshwar and the books of the Sat Vidyans [True Teachers]. Hence, I set out below several shurt i s from Rigveda which the A ryas believe teach Unity of God: I laud divine Agni, the valiant minister of the burnt offerings, who presents our holy offerings to the gods, and possesses an abundance of wealth. May it be so that Agni, who has been