The Conclusive Argument — Page 27
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 27 —that I have come to you with a wish to listen to your arguments, save you from your perniciousness, uproot your meanness, and to show you that you are in error. You know well that the bur- den of proof does not lie with me; rather, it is upon him who claims that Jesus is alive and says that he has neither died, nor is he to be counted among the dead. For the reality of a claim that chooses the ways of exemption without proofs is indicative of such baseless posi- tions; i. e. the including of countless things in one rule [i. e. all men die], then excluding something from it [ Jesus as ] without any reason of exemption or demonstrable cause. This explanation cannot be denied by a child or even a simpleton, except the one who, due to his prej- udice, resembles fanatics. With this firmly established, we argue that, as we look at the age in which Jesus was raised, our sound reason testifies that all the people of his time passed away, regardless of whether they were his friends or دالئلك، استماع في راغبین لننجیك من غوائلك، ونجیح أصل رذائلك، ونریك أنك من الخاطئین. وأنت تعلم أن حمل إ ثبات لیس علینا بل علی الذي ال ا ادّعی الحیاة ویقول إن عیسی ما مات ولیس من المیتین. فإن حقیقة االدّعاء اختیار طرق االستثناء بغیر أدلّة دالّة علی راء، أعني إدخال أشیاء آ ال هذه ا كثیرة في حكم واحد، ثم إخراج إخراج ال شيء منه بغیر وجه ا وسبب شاهد، وهذا تعریف ال ّ الذي ال ینكره صبي وال غبي، إ كان من تعصّبه كالمجنونین. فإذا تقرّر هذا فنقول إنّا اذا نظرنا إلی زمان بُعث فیه المسیح، فشهد النظر الصحیح أنه كل من كان في زمانه