Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth

by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 734

JESUS VERSUS FINALITY. Quran is an act of abomination. The reasons which motivate the medievalist clergy to do this and the deceptive manner in which they attempt to fuse these absolutely unrelated issues is the main subject of discussion here. . Having familiarized the reader with the background, now we proceed to tell the tale of the Mullah's desperation. . With this in mind we hope that the reader will fully understand that which follows. . ESPITE THE FACT that the imagined ascent or descent of. Jesus as has nothing to do with the independent declaration of the Holy Prophet's sa finality, the clergy still assert that there is a definite link between the two. Prophet Jesusas, son of Mary, they insist, will be personally brought back from the heavens because no new prophet can be raised after Prophet Muhammadsa. This ingenious device of bringing an old prophet back to earth instead of raising one from the Ummah to meet the new need may seem highly laudable to the Muslim orthodoxy but their enthusiasm cannot be shared by ordinary humans. . No one with an iota of common sense can attribute this cheap act of trickstering to God the Almighty, the AllWise. Only the Mullahs can and this exactly is what they attempt to do. By connecting the return of Jesus as with the finality of the Holy Prophets, they think that they have rescued God from the consequences of a premature declaration of finality. Thus, the clergy believes that they have saved God from a grave dilemma of contradiction. . This has to be the brainchild of a half-wit Mullah to whom it rightly belongs. The promise of finality to any prophet by. God, despite His knowledge that it could not be kept, is inconceivable of Him. To make a show of keeping the promise by bringing an old prophet after the demise of the last one is sheer mockery. Thus, judging God by his own standards, the Mullah first attributes a shameful act of 692