Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 256
256 but will be distinguished by insights into the attributes of God and the many stages of spiritual development. The Promised Messiah as received such abundant knowledge of the Holy Quran that it would not be an exaggeration to say that the Holy Quran was revealed once again in his time. Indeed, it would be in accord with a Hadith wherein the Holy Prophet s as says: 15 َ ا لَنَا لَہ ٗ رَجُل ٌ مِن ْ فَارِس َّ قًا بِالثُّرَی َّ لَوْکَان َ الِْیْمَان ُ مُعَل If ever the faith disappears to the Pleiades, a man of Persian origin will bring it back. This Tradition relates to the Promised Messiah as who was Persian by descent. I will first address that aspect of the knowledge of the Holy Quran given to the Promised Messiah as which so profoundly helped Islam against other religions that, all at once, the victors became vanquished and the vanquished became the victors. The Holy Quran, that had hitherto been considered a dead book, came alive and the enemies dispersed at the sight of its brilliance. Before the advent of the Promised Messiah as , Muslims gener - ally believed that the truths of the Holy Quran had been explained once and for all by earlier Muslim scholars and commentators of the Holy Quran. It was thought that nothing new could now be derived from it and that it was futile, and even dangerous, to reflect on the Holy Quran anymore. The Promised Messiah as , however, was assured by God that just as the material world bears infinite secrets, so does the Word of God contain infinite knowl - edge and wisdom. If the housefly, which might be categorized as one of the most humble of creations, has secrets that continue to