The Unity of Muslims — Page 20
20 Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad a fisherman possesses the knowledge and experience to provide a more intricate and detailed description of it. In other words, when experts in any field make observations, unlike non-specialists, they elucidate diverse aspects of things they specialise in. God Almighty says that such subtleties are imperceptible to an unlearned person. But present His creation before scholars, experts, colour scientists, doctors, forest officers, and botanists and they will catalogue it. This comprehensive examination will compel you to acknowledge the myriad differences, all fashioned by the same God who created life with all its diversity and colour. In the above verse, then, Allah has mentioned examples of natural and necessary differences, which if erased, would render life meaningless. I have also explained that some differences are such that eliminating them leads to destruction. The Holy Quran says: اخۡتَلَف َ فِیۡہ ِ اِلَّا فِیۡہ ِ ؕ وَمَا اخۡتَلَفُوۡا وَاَنۡزَل َ مَعَہُم ُ الۡکِتٰب َ بِالۡحَق ِّ لِیَحۡکُم َ بَیۡن َ النَّاس ِ فِیۡمَا اخۡتَلَفُوۡا لِمَا اللّٰہُ الَّذِیۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا بَیۡنَہُم ۡ ۚ فَہَدَی ج َٓاءَتۡہُمُ الۡبَیِّنٰتُ بَغۡیًۢا الَّذِیۡنَ اُوۡتُوۡہُ مِنۢۡ بَعۡدِ مَا 10 ٍ صِرَاطٍ مُّسۡتَقِیۡم فِیۡہِ مِنَ الۡحَقِّ بِاِذۡنِہ ٖ ؕ وَاللّٰہُ یَہۡدِیۡ مَنۡ یَّش َٓاءُ اِلٰی 10 And sent down with them the Book containing the truth that He might judge between the people wherein they differed. But now they began to differ about the Book, and none differed about it except those to whom it was given, after clear Signs had come to them, out of envy towards one another. Now has Allah, by His