The Magnificent Services of The Just Imam, The Promised Messiah

by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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The Magnificent Services of The Just Imam, The Promised Messiah — Page 14

Magnificent Services of the Just Imam, the Promised Messiah as , to Reform the Mutual Controversies and Distorted Beliefs of the Muslims [ 14 ] The so-called illicit behaviour that they associate with God the Almighty cannot be quoted. Even though the words have been uttered by others, I feel embarrassed in narrating them. They have gone to the point of saying that theft, drinking and injustice are all within the power of God and to deny this power amounts to ignorance. Their argument is that whatever is within the power of man is within the power of God. (For details see, Tadhkiratul-Khal i l , written by A shiq ‘Al i Mir a th i , printed at Maktabah Q a simiyyah Rang Purah Road, Sialkot City, Pakistan, Rabi‘ul-Awwal 4, 1389, May 1969, Article by Mahmud Hasan, quoted in the newspaper Ni za mul-Mulk , Aug. 25, 1889) Their argument is that whatever is within the power of man is within the power of God. Both of these viewpoints have played a disgraceful role in slanting the concept of Allah. One upgrades the rank of people to God and the other downgrades the rank of God to the level of people. The God they speak of is not the God Who revealed Himself to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. This is not the God Who is the God of the universe and Who is without any errors, Whose praise and glorification is sung day and night, even by things considered lifeless by us. How can one compare their theories with the beautiful concept of Allah! We only recognise the God of our master Hadrat Muhammad sa and declare with full force that if you [non- Ahmad i s] believe in the God that you have mentioned in