Blessings of Prayer — Page 47
47 Now, whereas it is not against His perfect attributes nor against His true promises to take away the cooling property of water or to strip the fire of its burning property, why then should someone unreasonably assert that He has forever been barred from exercising His control over the properties of these elements? Is there anything to prove this? And where is the need for this uncalled for compulsion which tarnishes the very image of Godhood? It would seem that in this booklet Sayyid Sahib has realized the feebleness of his hypothesis. That is why, in order to defend his unsubstantiated assertion, he has taken recourse to yet another feeble argument. He says that God Almighty has hinted in the Holy Quran at the heat of fire, and the cooling effect of water, and the fact that the Sun moves from East to West—all which are meant to express the present state of these things—but Sayyid Sahib sees them as promises which admit of no change. If this indeed is the way to deduce arguments, then Sayyid Sahib is going to find himself in great deal of trouble, for he will have to declare that all the statements of the Holy Quran constitute promises. For example, God Almighty gave the following glad tidings to Hadrat Zachariah as :