Life of Ahmad — Page 395
as DEBATE WITH ATHIM 395 'In the Quran it is written about the fire which was seen in the bush, O Moses take off thy shoes because it is the valley of Towa. I am the God of thy father Abraham, Isaac and Jacob'. . . Ahmad as pointed out that there was no such verse in the Quran. A thim had to admit that he was wrong in quoting the verse of the Quran. A thim was also driven in argument to admit that Jesus as became a special manifestation of God only when 'he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him. ' This admission on the part of the Christian representative is a clear contradiction of the creed of Athanasius or the confession of the Christian faith which lays down that Jesus as , 'the Son of God', was 'of the substance of the Father'; and that 'in this Trinity none is afore, or after other… the whole three Persons are co-eternal together. ' This important debate 83 lasted 15 days, during which A thim became indisposed and Dr. Clark took his place. Ahmad as dictated his last paper on June 5th, 1893, which concluded as follows: 'When I prayed to God, in all humility and earnestness, that He might give His judgment in the debate because we were weak mortals and without His decision we could not do anything, I was given the sign, by way of glad tidings, 83 A detailed report is published under the title Jang-e-Muqaddas. It was printed at the Riy ad -e-Hind, Amritsar, p. 190, price 8 as. A large range of subjects is covered in this book as indicated in the conditions of the debate.