Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 214
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 214 and devotees of those scriptures were wrong, then we would have to believe that the Vedas are mute and totally incapable of enunciating their purport. There is a world of difference between Tauhid and idol wor- ship and yet both these concepts are alleged to have originated from the same holy scriptures; i. e. , the Vedas. On the one hand, earlier Hindus prove idol worship on the basis of the same Vedas and debate with the believers in the Oneness of God, while on the other hand, people of the current generation who subscribe to Dayanand’s thinking—who are the generation far behind the former, both in terms of time and [knowledge of its] language—cull Tauhid from the very same books and are averse to idol worship. Regardless, one has to admit that either the esteemed leaders of the past were right or the Vedas are mute, and are incapable and incompetent in articulating their intent. Has anyone ever seen or heard of a Muslim subscribing to the worship of idols and praying to statues? The Holy Quran has expounded the doctrine of Tauhid in such a lucid manner with clear and convincing arguments that the notion or pros- pect of idol worship has never crossed the mind of any Muslim. The Promised Messiah as said: I have settled all the objections of these people in a comprehen- sive manner once and for all in my book, Chashma-e-Ma‘rifat. I am confident that if any seeker after truth, setting aside prej- udice and obstinacy, reads this book of mine from beginning to end for the purpose of finding the truth, would—at the very least—never speak or write against Islam. The prerequisite is