The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 379
The Holy Qur'ān corrects its deficiencies. 379. Other books that are called revealed are in their present condition deprived of all these perfect qualities and contain many wrong conceptions with regard to the Being and attributes of the Divine. The followers of these books profess strange doctrines. Some of them deny God being the Creator and All-Powerful and set themselves up as. His partners in being eternal and self-existent. Some set up idols and images and deities as partners with the Divine and managers of His kingdom. Some fashion sons and daughters and grandsons and grand-daughters for. Him. Some worship Him in the form of an alligator or tortoise. In short, they run ahead of each other as if the. Perfect Being is most unfortunate that He has not been able to attain the perfection which reason demanded for. Him. When I discovered people involved in such false doctrines and afflicted with so much error my heart. trembled and melted and I felt it a bounden duty and obligation to write this book for their guidance, which I shall fully discharge. [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 1 pp. 81-83]. Evidences of Truth and Superiority of the Holy Qur'ān. The external evidence of the truth and superiority of the. Holy Qur'an is of four types. One, that is derived from those matters which need to be reformed; and second, that is derived from those matters which need to be perfected; and third, which is derived from matters which manifest the power of God; and fourth, which is derived from matters relating to the unseen. The internal evidence of the truth and superiority of the Holy Qur'ān is