Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 174
rte btieself anil no sensible person can hold this position 1 for a single minute. The holder of such a belief is an easy prey for atheism, and it needs very little effort on the part of an atheist to win over an Arya Samajist to his own side. It grieves me much to see that the Arya Samaj has in formulating its doctrines com* rnitted serious errors in both branches of Law. With regard to God the Aryas hold the belief that He is not the Author of the Universe and the source from which all blessings flow, but that matter and soul with all their properties and attributes are self- existent and not in any way under obligation to God. If this is true, it is meaningless to acknowledge the existence of God, and even if His existence is assumed, it does not appear why He deserves to be worshipped, on what grounds He is to be taken as the All-powerful Being, and how and by what methods He is to be recognised. Can any one answer these questions? Ah ! that there were a heart capable of receiving this message of sympathy. Ah ! that some one should sit in the corner of solitude and ponder over these words. Almighty God ! Have Thou mercy on these people who are our old neighbours. Turn Thou the hearts of most of them to truth so that they should know it and accept it, for to Thee belongs all power. Amen ! So far as to the error of the Arya Samaj in connection with the recognition of God and His powers, but the other part of Law is also full of errors. Firstly, there is the doctrine of trans- migration according to which the soul assumes different bodies in different births, The point which strikes one most in this doctrine is that Almighty God is represented as a most cruel and hard-hearted being whose anger can never be appeased. In the Arya Samajic code of beliefs, God is first shorn of His glory and divested of the power of creation, and then in strange contra- diction with it, He is invested with an arbitary and tyrannical