Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 198
198 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad me. Hospitality is one of my duties. ” 1 24 December 1901 A Third Audience Mr Abdul-Haqq: I have understood the issue of atonement, but can you refute the concept of the Trinity? Promised Messiah as : In the very beginning, this is why I said that you should present your objections about Islam. Also, in my initial address, I briefly touched upon jihad, slavery and polygamy, so that you have an opportunity to raise your objections in this regard. The Promised Messiah as said: “In my opinion, it is the duty of a seeker of truth to immediately present their questions if anything agitates their heart, otherwise this will weaken their faith and will weigh heavily on their spiritual faculties. For example, if someone eats spoiled food, this causes disorder within, and ultimately the food is expelled either by vomiting or diarrhoea. Similarly, an impure belief is bound to create disorder within, and this disorder is none other than the harmful influence that affects a person’s morals and character. The person becomes a leper, as it were. So, you should be sure to ask if anything rankles your heart. I have already spoken briefly in refutation of the Trinity. But now, I would like you to provide arguments in favour of this doctrine, for as I have mentioned, the burden of proof is on you, who consider it to be the means for salvation and in doing so, oppose a large group of people. For example, it is a simple fact that human beings see with their eyes, taste and speak with their tongue, and hear with their ears. Now if someone were to dispute this universally accepted fact and claim that humans speak with their eyes and see with their ears, natural law would dictate that the burden of proof is on the one who makes this claim. In the same way, no one believes in the Trinity. The Jews who follow the Abrahamic tradition reject this belief. They clearly state that this doctrine is nowhere to be found in their scriptures; instead they have been given the teach - ing of God’s Oneness, and it is forbidden to suggest the existence of another God, whether in heaven, on earth, in the sea, or anywhere else. Further, in view of the law of nature, I demonstrated before you with evidence 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 6, no. 5, dated 7 February 1902, pp. 3-5 p. 464