Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 525
Reply to the doubts raised by rashĪd a H mad gangohĪ 525 sons it provides to those who deify Hadrat ‘ I s a —reasons that stand as ‘proven’ by the admission of the Muslims themselves. Had Almighty God had not refuted all these distinctions by declaring Hadrat ‘ I s a to be dead, another way to refute them was that Almighty God should have provided some precedents that would show that certain other human beings also shared these extraordinary qualities with him, just as God had provided the precedent of Adam in being fatherless. But if God neither declared Hadrat ‘ I s a to be dead nor refuted all these distinctions, then in this context God became, as it were, dumbfounded in the face of the Christians’ argument. And if you say that you also believe that Hadrat ‘ I s a will return in the Latter Days and then die after a while, then Christians do not accept this assertion. They convict you by your own admissions. And they are not obligated to accept your unsubstantiated claim. For, if Hadrat ‘ I s a were to remain alive till the Day of Judgment, and were to have all the fea- tures of godhood in him—such as raising the dead—then it is possible that he should remain immune to death. And this is, in fact, what the Christians believe—that Hadrat ‘ I s a will not die after descending from Heaven; rather, in his capacity as ‘God’, he will reward and punish peo- ple. So in the scenario, where these four distinctions of Hadrat ‘ I s a are proven according to your own admission, the Christians will get the better of you, because, according to them, these four distinctions are sufficient to make Hadrat ‘ I s a God. It is far from the wisdom of God Almighty that He should bestow these four distinctions on someone who is being deified by 400 million people. At the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the Christians had presented just one feature as the distinction of Hadrat ‘ I s a— that he was born without a father—and Allah the Exalted at once countered it and said, 1 َّنِا َلَثَم ىٰسْيِع َدْنِع ِهّٰللا ِلَثَمَك َمَدٰا١ؕ ٗهَقَلَخ ْنِم ٍباَرُت َّمُث َلاَق ٗهَل ْنُك ُنْوُكَيَف 1. S u rah A l-e-‘Imr a n, 3:60 [Publisher]