Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 377
377 ages. It is true that the teachings contained in: the Yedas in their present form have failed to make any people the worshippers of one God, -nor were they adapted to fulfil that purpose, and the idolaters, the fire-worshippers, the sun-worshippers, the Ganges- worshippers, the believers in thousands of deities, the followers of Jainism and the professors of the shakat mat, in short. all sects of Hinduism that are to be found in India base their respective creeds on the Vedas, the Vedas being so ambiguous that every sect derives its doctrines from them ; yet your belief according to the Quranic teaching is that the Vedas are not the fabrication of man, for a human fabrication has not the power of drawing mil- lions of men towards itself and of the firmly establishing a system. that may endure for ages. Indeed we have not found the Vedas teaching the worship of stones anywhere but they teem with adoration of fire, air, water, the moon, the sun etc-, and there is not a single verse-in them forbidding the worship of these objects. Who should decide, then, that all the long established sect of ^Hinduism that worship the objects named above are in error and orfcly the newborn sect of the Ayra Sarnajists is in the right ? Those ti ! ; wio worship various objects have that clear evidence of the Vedas on their side, and Ayra Sarnajists who assert that agni (fire), vayu, fair), jal (water,) etc. , are only the names of the Divine Being make an assertion of which there is no proof. They have raised a question which has not yet been satisfactorily settled. Had this point been satisfactorily settled, there was no reason why the learned Pundits of Benares and other 'Hindu cities should not have accepted the views of the Ayra Samajists. Though this new sect has been exerting itself to the utmost in disseminating its new doctrines. for the last 30 or. 35 years, yet very few Hindus fallen in with their views and the number of the Ayra Samajists shrinks into insignificance when compared