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195 Quran, it is to be accepted, otherwise, it is to be rejected. Sunnah is based on historical evidence which cannot be dismissed with - out cause, otherwise, many important truths would be lost to the world. The Promised Messiah as also demonstrated the falsity of the belief that the Holy Quran is the word of the Holy Prophet s as rather than of God. He explained that every word of the Holy Quran is the Word of God and that the Holy Prophet s as was only the medium of the Divine revelation, not its author. It is wrong to think that, since human speech entails the use of lips and a vocal apparatus and since God cannot be said to possess such things, it is not possible for God to speak to a human being. The fact is that God is Unique. 23 َسْيَل ٖهِلْثِمَك ٌءْيَش ‘Nothing is like unto Him. ’ The powers and attributes of God cannot be understood in the context of human attributes. If it were not possible for God to reveal His Word without having lips and a tongue, then wouldn’t it be equally true to say that nothing can be created without phys - ical hands? Is God then not the Creator of the universe? Just as God created the whole universe without physical hands, so is He capable of revealing His words to His servant without the use of physical lips and a tongue. The Promised Messiah as again cited his own experience and said that such misconceptions arose because of ignorance of the ways of God. He said that if God could reveal to him in actual words, then why could He not reveal to the Holy Prophet s as who was the Chief of Mankind and the closest to God any man could be? Who would be more naïve than one who interferes in matters of which he has no knowledge and speculates about Divine secrets based on his own meagre understanding? The Promised Messiah as also refuted the belief that the Word