Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 520
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 520 اَم ُحْيِسَمْلا ُنْبا َمَيْرَم اَّلِا ٌلْوُسَر١ۚ ْدَق ْتَلَخ ْنِم ِهِلْبَق ُلُسُّرلا١ؕ َو ٗهُّمُا ٌةَقْيِّدِص١ؕ اَناَك ِنٰلُكْاَي Part Number 6, Ruku‘ 10 — 1 َماَعَّطلا Meaning: ‘ I s a , Mas ih [ Jesus the Messiah] is but a Messenger; all Messengers before him have died. And his mother was a pious woman, and both of them used to eat food when they were alive. In this verse, Allah the Exalted refutes the divinity of Hadrat ‘ I s a, may peace be upon him, and says that all Messengers before him have died. To think, despite this fact, that the Messiah is sitting alive in heaven, is a fallacy. How can this argument be used to prove his divin- ity when the argument itself is false, for the truth is that death did not spare anyone and they all died. The second argument for him being a human is that he had a mother of whom he was born, while God has no mother. The third argument for him being a human is that when he and his mother were alive they both used to eat food, whereas God is in no need of food. That is, food restores the body as it wastes away, while God is free from the attribute of wasting away. But the Messiah contin- ued to consume food. Thus, if he is God, then does the body of God, too, continue to waste away? This refers to the fact that, according to physiological research, the human body is replaced completely in three years, as earlier cells are broken down and new cells develop as their replacement. But this imperfection is by no means to be found in God. This is the argument invoked by Almighty God to prove that Hadrat ‘ I s a was a human being. But alas for the people who, having raised Hadrat ‘ I s a to heaven, believe that his body does not possess this trait that, like all human beings, the process of dissolution should continue in him, and believe that his body would have remained safe from annihilation even with- out obtaining the replacement for the dissolution through food. They wish to break thereby the argument given by God and the reasoning put forth in the above-mentioned verse. God, on the other hand, gives 1. S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:76 [Publisher]