The Ocean of Light — Page 129
129 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS surpassed everyone in diagnosing and treating illness. At other times he assumes the role of a jurist, and sometimes he hints that he has succeeded in learning the recipe of the philosopher’s stone. However, once the riders of the pen and excellent artisans test him in the arena, it is brought to light that he does not even have the ability to write error-free statements and changes them as he pleases. Rather it becomes manifest that he is dumb and is like an animal as he does not even know what literature is and is completely ignorant of its luminous ways. Then, if patients are brought before him to be cured, as per his claims, he does not even have the ability to distinguish between a coma and common sleep. He sometimes misidentifies a fever brought on by tuberculosis with normal fever, angina with heartburn, conjunctivitis with blepharitis, and thinks that asthma is diphtheria. He prescribes medicines that lower the body temperature and cool the stomach when the body needs to be heated, saying