Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 33
Chapter One 33 and publicized among the ignorant and simple people—who do not get to the root cause of the issues and cannot discern true reality—that he worked such wonders with the help of some ‘Spirit’. Such a view becomes even more credible, particularly when it is an accepted fact that Hadrat Mas ih would often frequent that very same pool. In the eyes of an opponent, therefore, the miracles that the pool had been manifesting since ancient times cast grave doubts and suspicions on the person of Hadrat ‘ I s a. It becomes extremely difficult to prove that the Mas ih was not—as the Jews believe him to be—a deceiver and a con- juror, but a righteous man who did not get any help from the ancient pool to work his wonders, and that he did indeed perform miracles. One is relieved of such doubts after believing in the Holy Quran; however, how can someone who has not yet believed in the Holy Quran—be he a Jew, Hindu, or Christian—escape such doubts? Given the fact that there was a wondrous pool, a single dip into which could cure thousands of lame, crippled, and congenitally blind people; and which for centuries had been known to the Jews and other people of the land as possessing these wondrous qualities, and was much talked about; and innumerable people had been cured by plunging into it, and continued to do so every day, and it had always been crowded with people; and the Mas ih , too, used to frequent this pool and was aware of its peculiar qualities; how can someone’s heart be satisfied that he did not receive any help from its clay or water to work the very same mira- cles that the pool had been manifesting since ancient times, nor did he adapt it to prepare a new prescription of his own? Undoubtedly, such a notion would be unfounded and would hold little weight before an opponent. Without doubt when one reflects on that pool of peculiar qualities, many irrefutable objections arise about the Mas ih himself. The more one reflects upon it, the more entrenched one becomes in confusion. And the Christian community can find no way of escape, since looking at the condition of the world today only strengthens these doubts. Numerous instances of such deceit and trickery come to