A Present to Kings — Page 60
( 60 ) certain verse, to hold that there is in it the fault of transposition of words, and that no body has the right to make such an assumption without the authorioy of the Holy Quran or of any commentary by the Holy Prophet. Such a course will create a confusion, since it will enable every designing man to read his own meaning by some suitable alteration in the arrangement of words. I should have fain shown to Your. Highness that in all instances of verses in which a faulty arrangment of words has been supposed, the right arrangement is that in which the words occur in the verses and it is the critics who are at fault. But space forbids. I shall therefore content myself with the two illustrations already given. The men who hold that there are instances of wrong transposition of words in the Holy Quran have been the dupe of a blunder. They have first in their own minds formulated certain rules of grammar which they want to see followed in the arrangement of words. But due to the natural weakness of the human intellect, they lost sight of many cases when they formulated the rules. If instead of proceeding to frame the rules, they had paid more attention to the Book of God and studied the arrangements observed therein they might have انی متوفیک و وانعالی avoided the blunder. In the verse also they have been the dape of a similar mistake. Instead of making their opinions follow the Holy Quran, they made the. Holy Quran follow their opinion. They first took it for granted that Jesus Christ was still living, and then proceeded to a consideration of the Holy Quran, and then wherever they happened to meet with a discrepancy they had to find an explanation in the theory of wrong transposition of words. . But the truth is that the exaltation of Jesus Christ took place after his death, which is the same as happens to all the faithful and all the Nabis. This is the exaltation which every. Muslim has been taught to seek in the prayer اللهم اغفر لی و ارحمنی و اهدنی و ارزقنی و ار فعلی وا جبرنی