Invitation to Ahmadiyyat

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 168

168 scriptures, then why are the arguments missing from them? God has fashioned the human mind in such a way that he does not accept anything without proof or reason. How is it possible then that God should expect us to believe His teachings without giving us arguments to convince us of their truth? Non-Muslims could not reject this principle; if they did so they would be admitting that their respective religions were not worth believing in. The reason, which might surprise you, dear reader, is that when this principle was applied to other religions it was found that almost 90% of their claims could not be found in their respective scrip - tures. As for the claims that were found in the scriptures, almost 100% were without accompanying arguments. Are we to believe that God taught man something and then left him to prove and defend it on his own? In this manner, the Promised Messiah as demonstrated that advocates of different religions invented beliefs or borrowed ideas from here and there and attributed them to their own religions, and thus wasted people’s time in trying to prove the superiority of their religions based on such beliefs. Even if they can manage to prove that their opinion about a matter is correct, this would not necessarily mean that their religion is also true because that concept is not found in their revealed scriptures. In contrast to this, the Promised Messiah as proved that all Islamic teachings are derived from the Holy Quran and that it also provides proofs and arguments for the truth of these teachings. The Promised Messiah as made this as clear as day by presenting the teachings of the Holy Quran on hundreds of topics along with their arguments, thereby completely humbling the opponents of Islam. They were so dispirited that to this day they have not found a way to counter