Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page 35
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 Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya on page 241 1 in relation to myself: ّٰ عنك الیہود و ال النصاری ٰ و خرقوا لہ بنین و بنات بغیر علم قل ھو الل ى و لن ترض ّٰ مكر الل ي مكرون و ي كن لہ كفوا احد. و ي ولد و لم ي لد و لم ي احد الل ّٰ الصمد لم ى ن. الفتنۃ ھٰھنا فاصبر كما صبر اولوا العزم و قل رب ادخلن ي و الل ّٰ خیر الماكر 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 ‘ I s a bin Maryam [ Jesus son of Mary] or someone who 1. This reference appears on pages 266–267 in the 1984 edition of the R uha n i Khaz a’ in, vol. 1. [Publisher]