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DEFENCE AGAINST THE PLAGUE & A CRITERION FOR THE ELECT OF GOD 35 revelation that God is One, He has no partner, and all good is comprehended in the Quran. " Good-natured people understand the truth of this matter. ' So, what book should we seek besides the Quran. How can we consider it to be incomplete? God has told me that the Christian faith has died completely, and the Gospel is a lifeless and incomplete word. Can there be any comparison between that which is dead and that which is alive. We cannot reconcile with Christianity in any way as it is entirely worthless and false. Today, there is no book that exists beneath the heavens other than the Holy Quran. Twenty-two years ago, the following revelation was recorded in Barāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya on page 241¹ 241 in relation to myself: و لن ترضى عنك اليهود و لا النصارى و خرقوا له بنين و بنات بغير علم قل هو الله احد الله الصمد لم يلد و لم يولد و لم يكن له كفوا احد- و يمكرون و يمكر الله و الله خير الماكرين الفتنة ههنا فاصبر كما صبر اولوا العزم و قل رب ادخلني مدخل صدق۔ This means that the Jews and Christians will never reconcile with me. (Here the term 'Christians' applies to the priests and other promoters of the Gospel. ) Then it was revealed that these people have unjustly fashioned, out of their own fancy, sons and daugh- ters for God, and they do not understand that ibn Maryam was a humble man. If God should so desire, He could create another person like 'Īsā bin Maryam [Jesus son of Mary] or someone who 1. This reference appears on pages 266-267 in the 1984 edition of the Rūķāni Khazā'in, vol. 1. [Publisher]