The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 17
T H e F I r S T Pr o o F T H e F I r S T Pr o o F 17 Meaning that, Say to the people that I have come as a Messenger to you all. Then He says: َو َنْيِذَّلا اْوُنَمٰا َو اوُلِمَع ِتٰحِلّٰصلا َو اْوُنَمٰا اَمِب َلِّزُن ىٰلَع ٍدَّمَحُم َّو َوُه ُّقَحْلا ْنِم ْمِهِّبَّر١ۙ َرَّفَك ْمُهْنَع 1 (Part No. 26) — ْمِهِتٰاِّيَس َو َحَلْصَا ْمُهَلاَب۰۰ Meaning that, those people who believe and do good works and believe in this Book which has been revealed to Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—and it is indeed the truth—God will remove their sins and reform their conduct. Similarly, there are hundreds of other verses wherein it is very clearly claimed that the Noble Qur’an is the Word of God and the Holy Prophet Muhammad, the Chosen One, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is His true Prophet. Presently, I consider writing this much appropriate and sufficient, but at the same time, I would like to remind my opponents that the force with which the Holy Qur’an makes this claim is certainly not to be found in any other book. I eagerly await if the Arya can even prove this much from their Vedas that the four Vedas have claimed to be the Word of God and have clearly stated that they were revealed to such and such a person at such and such a time. To prove that a book is from Allah, the first essential matter is indeed that that book should itself claim to be from Allah as well; for, attributing a book to the Lord Almighty when the book itself in no way points to being from Allah, is misplaced meddling. The second matter worth discussing is that the Noble 1. S u rah Mu h ammad, 47:3 [Publisher]