An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 344
344 Background The editor of an Egyptian Journal, al-Liw a ’ , Mu st af a Kam a l P a sh a , criticised the action of the Promised Messiah as in directing his followers not to get themselves vaccinated against the plague. The paper argued that such a course of action was against the teachings of the Holy Quran, which says: “And cast not yourselves into ruin with your own hands” ( Al-Baqarah , verse 196). The attack was made out of sheer ignorance without taking into consideration why the Promised Messiah as had urged his followers against the vaccinations and, therefore, such an attack warranted a full-fledged reply from the Promised Messiah as in Arabic. The book was named Maw a hibur-Ra h m a n and it appeared in January 1903. The Book The book tackled the objection raised by the Egyptian daily and answered the points with cogent reasons by recounting a number of heavenly signs that took place in support of his mission during the three years before some of which were against the normal laws of nature and he enumerated at length the Ahmadiyyah beliefs. The Promised Messiah as said: “And this is also a part of our belief that the birth of Jesus took place against the normal laws”. The Promised Messiah as explained at length the philosophy of the birth of Jesus without a father and then he said that there were two options before the people to accept the testimony of the Quran and the Bible: “Either we believe that Jesus was born on the decree of God, such is the way of All a h, He creates what He pleases, When He decrees a thing He says to it, ‘To be,’ and it is. Or, God forbid, his birth was illegitimate. ” ( R uha n i Khaz a’ in , v. 19, Introduction to the book Page 17). The Promised Messiah as expressed his amazement at those who were not prepared to believe that Jesus could be born without a father and believed that he was fathered by Joseph, whereas the birth of Jesus