The Holy War — Page 45
Proceedings—Debate 24 May 1893 45 And in S u rah al-Qa s a s , it is written thus. Concerning the same voice that emanated from the fire or the bush, indeed I am the Lord of all the worlds. And the third verse, besides these two verses, that Your Honour has mentioned, the phrase that I am the Lord of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is actually in the Torah. I erroneously attributed this quote to the Quran. This much error you can accept to be mine that I attributed the words of the Torah to the Quran, but actually there is no difference in I am your Lord, and I am the Lord of all the worlds, and that which is written in the Torah that, I am the Lord of your father Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob —nothing less and nothing more. The argument of the manifestation of Allah comes from this because a visible object cannot be God. Sixth— In reply to your statement that each of the two words ی � نت [ yak-tann ] and �ی نم [ yak-mann ] are not found in the Torah, I submit that I made a deduction; in other words, I concluded. If you keep objecting like this, then this would be similar to that person named Muhammad Bakhsh, whom someone confronted by asking Why do you not offer prayer? His reply was Where is it written that Muhammad Bakhsh should offer prayer? Now, this is no argument but just a joke. Seventh— You referred to these words that Christ, our Lord, said that You don’t declare it blasphemy when your judges and divines are called ‘gods’, so why do you accuse me for saying I am the ‘Son of God’? Our Lord Christ used to address himself to the Jewish people saying that I am the Son of God, so they were getting ready to stone him saying that By calling yourself the Son of God, you make yourself equal to God and this is blasphemy; it is for this reason that we stone you. Our Lord rebutted their assertion by saying that God is the equal of God. If I call myself God then your divines were also called ‘gods’, so in their case why did you not accuse them of blasphemy? Thus, our