Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 227
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 227 Just think: Can this prophecy — which speaks of an occurrence that is akin to Doomsday and will result in a tumultuous uproar — be at par with a prophecy that promises earthquakes in the most general terms, and even that in the land of Sh a m that is commonly visited by earth- quakes and plagues? If you had any fear of God, you would not deny prophecies of God Almighty with such temerity. Your attack is not against me, but against God, who said: عَفَت ِ الدِّیار محلّھا و مقامھا [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out]. To say that these words are the first line of a couplet written by Lab i d bin Rab i ‘ah is an insolent attack on God, for He is the ulti- mate owner of all words whether they are spoken by Lab i d or by any- one else. It is solely by His grace that anyone can compose a couplet. Thus, there is no room for objection if God chooses to send down the words of a poet as His revelation. And if your objection is valid, then what will you say about the fact that the verse contained in the Holy Quran فتبارك الل ّٰ احسن الخالقین. was really the speech of a human — namely, ‘Abdull a h bin Ab i Sara h — who initially used to write down the verses of the Holy Quran, but then turned apostate. The words [in the above verse] were his and were revealed verbatim in the Holy Quran. The letters of the revelation عفت الدّیار محلّھا ومقامھا. [Temporary residences and permanent ones will be wiped out] do not exceed the letters of the verse: 1 َكَرٰبَتَف ُهّٰللا ُنَسْحَا َنْيِقِلٰخْلا The revelation has 21 letters, whereas the verse consists of 22. So, for the 1. So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:15). [Publisher]