Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 192
192 points out some essential teachings but nothing specific can be derived from it. Some think that the Holy Quran is full of taqd i m and ta‘kh i r , whereby the apparent order of words has to be changed in order to arrive at the true meaning. Some have collected all kinds of fictitious tales that are unac - ceptable to common sense and abhorrent to human nature and ascribed them to the Holy Quran. Even if no such mention is made in the Holy Quran, or even when such tales are completely at odds with the Holy Quran, they still bring old Israelite stories into its commentaries. They do not even hesitate to attribute such stories to Prophets and sages of the past. Another injustice they have done to the Word of God is that they deny that it has any rational order or sequence in its chapters or verses. In other words, just as a person utters meaningless words when he is not in his senses, so do they imagine that the Holy Quran has related random accounts without any regard for order or sequence. Another wrongful belief almost all Muslims hold about Divine revelation is that, whereas God would reveal His word in earlier ages, He no longer does so. In other words, one of God’s attributes has been held in abeyance, and while He can see and hear, He can no longer speak. God save us from all this! In short, they have all tried their best to tear apart the Holy Quran and to conceal its beauty from the world, and they do all this in the name of ‘service to the Quran’, but in so doing they have only managed to alienate people from the Quran and made them indifferent to its guidance.