Scattered Pearls — Page 56
55. Allah had for His servant, the Promised Messiah felt a great joy and pride in the heavenly help and protection which characterised his life. Once it so happened that some Arya. Samaajists objected that the Quranic version, that Abraham was thrown into the roaring flames but came out alive, was contrary to the laws of nature, and therefore unacceptable; and Hazrat Maulvee Noor-ud-Deen, who later become the First Khalifah of the Promised Messiah, refuted this objection in one of his writings by saying that by fire here the Quran meant the fire of enmity; and many people were exceedingly pleased with this reply as very effective. But when the Promised Messiah came to hear that this reply had been made to refute the said objection, he remarked that there was no need in search for explanations and meanings of this kind; and that no man of woman born, with his frail mind could claim to comprehend the law of nature. In one of his most beautiful couplets, which is enough to open the eye, he says: "The ways for the manifestation. Of His power and glory. With Allah are endless,. And absolutely innumerable:. For mortal man to claim a total. Comprehension of these ways. Is, to claim nothing less. Than Divinity itself!". And indeed it is nothing but the barest truth that things not so long ago which were considered to be against the law of nature, have been, by modern science shown to be quite in accordance with it. Besides, Allah is not the slave of any law, not even where it was made by Him, since, in his infinite wisdom, it is open to Him to make whatever timely alterations He should deem fit, as He has Himself said in the Holy Quran: "Allah has full power over His decrees" (Surah Yoosuf, 22). This, however, should not be taken to imply that Allah upsets His own law of nature, or suspends the chain of