Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 118
EMINENT DIVINE Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 118 of escape by affirming somewhat contemptuously that the Asian mind was incapable of comprehending the mystery of the Trinity, and provoked the riposte: "Indeed! That explains it. That is why Jesus as , Peter and Paul, all three Asians, did not comprehend it either!" A Christian missionary presented a copy of his book Quran Dispensable to Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra and asked him to study it carefully. Its theme was that the Holy Quran was not the Word of God, but a symposium of doctrines and teachings in Arabic culled from earlier revealed books like the Torah , the Gospel , the Vedas , the Zendavesta etc. The author had selected a number of verses from the Holy Quran and had endeavoured to trace every one of them to one or other of those books. Maulaw i Sahib did not take long to go through the book and returned it to the author with the following comments: "I am very grateful to you for giving me an opportunity of reading your book. Its perusal has still further strengthened my faith and re- inforced my conviction that the Holy Quran is truly the Word of God. The collection and study of various Scriptures in diverse languages like Sanskrit, Pehlevi, Hebrew, Aramaic, Pali etc. , (it is said that a study of the Vedas alone needs forty years) and the collation of the verities comprised in them was surely beyond the capacity and resources of an unlettered Arab of the early seventh century of the Christian era. Besides, it is the Holy Quran alone that sets forth the philosophy of the grand verities, and establishes accord between reason and the law of nature. Before the Holy Quran kings and rulers imposed their religious views and