Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 191
191 Can anyone be satisfied with this? If the premise is that Satan can interfere in Divine revelation, then who can say whether or not this verse too was revealed by Satan to reassure the Holy Prophet s as that verses inspired by Satan had been removed and that the verses that remained should be considered the pure Word of God! Many have deemed the Holy Quran so insignificant as to ren - der its verses subservient to the most inauthentic and dubious of Hadith. In the name of Sunnah (the practical example of the Holy Prophet s as ), they have placed the Word of God under the author - ity of self-seeking and immoral men. The Holy Quran may reject a thing vehemently, and yet if they find it to be permissible in a most unsupported Hadith, they will give priority to that Hadith. If the Holy Quran teaches something but they find it forbidden in a Hadith, they will put the Holy Quran aside and adopt the Hadith. Some believe that the Holy Quran was narrated by the Holy Prophet s as and not revealed by God. Although they describe the Holy Quran as the Word of God, they interpret this to mean that the words that came from the Holy Prophet s as were supported by God and, therefore, should be called the Word of God, even though they were the words of the Holy Prophet s as. They think that God cannot reveal in the form of words because words require lips and a tongue to be expressed. Others think that the Holy Quran must not be translated. In this way, they have barred the only way of conveying its message to the masses and are responsible for the resultant spread of igno - rance and godlessness among Muslims. Some think that the Holy Quran is an abstract book that