A Present to Kings — Page 68
( 68 ) attain the perfect likeness of the Holy Prophet by reason of spiritual affinity, God bestowed upon him the same miracle as was bestowed upon his prototype. Of course, so much of difference there was between the miracles of the master and the servant, that while in case of the former the challenge was to produce three verses, in the case of the latter the challenge was to produce a section (juze). But neither in the case of the. Holy Quran has there been any person to write three similar verses, nor now in the case of the Promised Messiah, in spite of such advancement in learning, has there been any person in. Egppt, or Syria or Arabia, to produce a section to rival his. This is a favour of God " و ذلك فضل الله يؤتيه من يشاء ,works which He bestows upon whomsoever He pleases. ". The above miracle increases in its wonder fulness when we remember that the Promised Messiah was an inhabitant of India, so that Arabic was not his mother-tongue. The wonder is further enhanced when we know that he did not receive his education in any eminent college or under any eminent teacher. . The illimitable literary power was bestowed upon him by God in the way of a miracle. . Some people there are who take the objection that there have been many examples of men whose works have stood without a parallel. Such an objection, in the first place, would apply to the Holy Quran itself. Secondly, accepting that there are many books which have been considered to be unrivalled, still, in respect of the question in hand, such cases do not deserve our attention, because the authors of those works did never themselves claim any singularity regarding those works, whereas in the case under consideration a challenge was previously given and in spite of opposition and enmity no one has had the power to meet the challenge.