Muhammad The Great Exemplar — Page 38
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 38 the miracle of the Qur’an, otherwise why would they be so agitated by it? THE HOLY QUR’AN IN COMPARISON TO OTHER SCRIPTURES The truth is when compared to the Holy Qur’an, no other divine book can be considered a miracle. [When earlier scriptures were revealed] they were indeed a magnificent sign for the people of that time, but after the sun rose their light faded like the glow of the stars. Now they seek to compete with Islam through the tales and myths found in their scriptures, for there are no limits to which one can exaggerate or embellish a story. Where there is an episode of the Holy Prophet’s sa powers of healing, [Christians] produce ten of their own. And when one expresses astonishment at their claims, they immediately reply that if the accounts [of the life of the Prophet sa ] are to be believed, then so must their own historical traditions be accepted. But if it is said to them the Holy Prophet’s sa greatest miracle is the Holy Qur’an, which is a living and verdant sign, and that its foundations are based on fact and not myth and legend, they turn to silence. They do not cite their own scripture because they themselves admit it has been redacted and interpolated. And if there are some among them who are so stubborn as to deny even this, then at the very least, the historical evidence is so overwhelming it cannot be rejected.