Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 206
206 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Abdur-Rahman, who lived in the region of Kabul, was imprisoned for one year just because he accepted me. They wanted him to repent, but he gave precedence to death over rejecting me. In the end, it is said they strangled him to death. Just as God Almighty said, after his demise, a sign was manifested. I find it regrettable that the Christians squander the wealth of their faith over the statements of Paul. In addition to all this, a large part of the Gospel as well teaches that God is One. For example, when the Jews wanted to stone the Messiah for the blasphemy that he referred to himself as the son of God, he clearly responded by saying: ‘Is it not written in your Law that you are gods?’ Now an intelligent person can eas - ily understand that on this occasion, what the Messiah ought to have done was absolve himself and demonstrate a sign in favour of his divinity to prove that the Jews were false. Especially when he was being accused of blasphemy, it was his responsibility that if he was actually God or even the son of God, he should have responded by saying that this is not blasphemy, I am actually the son of God and in proof of this, I have the following evidence from your own scriptures where it is written at such and such instance that I am God, the Omnipotent, the Knower of the Unseen. Then, he ought to have shown them a manifestation of his power and strength as a demonstration of his signs of divinity. He ought to have also given a list of all the actions that he had already performed that were godly in nature. So if such manifest proof had been given, how would any of the Jewish Scribes and Pharisees have had the power to reject him? In fact, upon witnessing this god, they would have fallen into prostration. However, in contrast, all he did was say that it is written that you are gods too. Now reflect with a God-fearing heart that here, did the Messiah give proof of his divinity or disprove it? So these are things which are embarrassing even to mention. I leave these points with you to judge on the basis of justice. The Torah, Islam, the law of nature, the law of intuition, all testify to the Oneness of God. On the other hand, the Christian gives arguments in favour of the divinity of Christ by saying that there are glad tidings in the past scriptures (which the Jews have never accepted as being evidence of God or the son of God, and in fact these tidings had already been fulfilled before the advent of the Messiah). Then, the Christians refer to certain statements of the Gospel, which we do not even have in their original form, because Hebrew was the actual language of the Messiah and the Messiah even speaks of his own, separate Gospel. Furthermore, the Messiah has made no claim of his own divinity anywhere; when the Jews were about to stone p. 472