Real Revolution — Page 148
148 enemy himself feels he cannot win against us by means of this weapon. . Moreover, when the well known religi us decree of Kufr was issued by the Ulama against the Promised Messiah, one of the grounds was stated to be the fact that he did not subscribe to the commonly held view pertaining to naaskh wa mansookh (abrogation) in the Holy Quran. Some of the Ulama of the old school held as many as full eleven hundred verses to have been abrogated, others six hundred, and others a little less: while there were some who held that only three verses had been abrogated. But the Promised. Messiah proclaimed that all such ideas were ridiculous and absurd: that not a single verse of the. Holy Book stood abrogated. Then he took up those verses which, under the weight of criticism of a kind, were held to have been abrogated, and he explained them in such a beautiful and new way that not only they did not contradict any part of the Holy Book, or raise any other difficulty, but they proved, in themselves, to be miraculous instances of the matchlessness of the. Holy Quran as compared with the rest of the great Scriptures. In a way this was a hidden treasure which the Promised Messiah dug up for mankind, making many people wonder how these things had escaped their eyes. But when the. Promised Messiah first proclaimed that not a single