The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 34
Hazrat Mirza ghulam AHmAD 34 clear water flow and where, after the incident of the cross, God Almighty caused Hadrat Mas ih and his mother to settle. Reflect upon the life history of Hadrat Mas ih and cite an example where having suffered a misfortune he was provided refuge in a country that was as calm and serene as Paradise and situated on elevated ground above the rest of the world and having springs flowing in it. Hence, according to your belief, God Almighty turns out to be, God forbid, a blatant liar, for He speaks of an elevated land wherein ‘ I s a and his mother were settled after the episode of the cross, while you seat him in Heaven for no reason or purpose. Would you now care to tell why, in spite of being a Prophet, he has been sitting idle for such a long time? What is more, you and Maulaw i Sanaullah—who, due to having denied this verse, take him to the second Heaven—cannot come up with an answer as to why a living person joined the souls of the dead. Those people had all departed from this world and arrived in the next. Has he too then reached that next world? Again, yet another lie attributed by you to God is that He might not have understood the objection of the Jews and therefore replied in an ambiguous manner. The Jews’ objection was that the spirit of Messiah was not raised to God, and God replied that He had raised him alive in his physical body to the second Heaven, and that He would cause him to die sometime in the future. What kind of answer is this on the part of God? The charge was that ‘ I s a was not raised to Heaven after his death and, therefore, God for - bid, became accursed. The right answer to this question was: ‘ ‘ I s a