With Love to the Muslims of the World — Page 21
21 "And if he had forged and attributed any sayings to Us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand, and then surely We would have severed his life-artery, and not one of you could have held Us off from him. ’’ (The Qur’an 69 : 45-48) As against the claim of non-believers of Mecca that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa had concocted the entire Holy Qur’an by himself, God declares that even if he had falsely attributed to Us a single statement, We would certainly have held him by the right hand and severed his life-artery. In that case, none among you, even if he had so desired, could have stood between our punishment and him (the ‘so-called false claimant’). Obviously, this is the development of the same theme as related above. Hence, it becomes evident that if Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a false claimant, as a large section of the Muslim clergy would have us believe, then it was none of their business to obstruct or to attempt to bring him any harm. The right to punish belonged to God and God alone. And if He had decided to destroy him, no power on earth could have stopped God from doing so. It is interesting to note that Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian as , who claimed to be the Promised Messiah and the Imam Mahdi, himself suggested the same line of action to his most hostile opponents. He wrote: "O ye people, be certain that I am being helped by a Hand Which shall always support me. If your men and your