Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 261
261 fulfilled word for word, refresh the faith of a believer and remove all doubts and misgivings. This is just one example of the Quranic prophecies about the current age that were revealed to us by the Promised Messiah as or have been derived by his followers in keeping with the princi - ples taught by him; otherwise, the Holy Quran is full of so many prophecies regarding the upheavals of the present time that even the most hardened critic, if he studies them closely, would admit that the Holy Quran is the Word of God and that nothing of the past, present or future is hidden from it. However, going any fur - ther into these examples will cause us to deviate from the purpose of this epistle and unnecessarily prolong it. The second fundamental discovery about the Holy Quran that we owe to the Promised Messiah as is that the Holy Quran never makes a claim without providing arguments thereof. This discovery opened a new door to the understanding of the Holy Quran. When the Holy Quran was studied with this principle in mind, it was discovered that thousands of its claims—that had hitherto been accepted on trust because they were the Word of God—actually came with their own reasoning and arguments. The result was that the human mind which, owing to advances in knowledge and science, was no longer ready to accept anything on authority, became excited at the fact that the Holy Quran also provided rational arguments for its claims. Instead of viewing it as something that had been imposed on them, they now saw it as a friendly guide. With the same principles, the Promised Messiah as derived from the Holy Quran such powerful arguments for the existence of God that even modern science could not reject them.