Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 138
138 mention of a challenge that he once offered to Christian missionaries. He wrote to them saying that as they claimed to be the followers and representatives of Jesus as , who showed signs, and he claimed to be a servant and representative of Muhammad sa , a way of testing the claims of their respective religions to truth would be to demonstrate whose prayers were accepted by God. The method suggested was that a number of men who had suffered from what were ordinarily re- garded as fatal diseases should be selected and divided equally between the Promised Messiah as and the Chris- tians by casting lots, and that each party should pray for the recovery of the patients allotted to it, and the result of the prayer of each would show whose prayer had been heard. The Christian missionaries declined to take up the challenge. Another attribute of God is that He is Qudd u s , i. e. Holy. All religions are agreed as to this, but none of them tells us how we can assure ourselves of His Holi- ness. In the first place, all the attributes of God de- scribed by various religions are in themselves doubtful. How, then, can we judge, on the basis of these attrib- utes, that He is indeed Holy? But even if we were to take this attribute alone, there is nothing to show that God possesses Holiness. This attribute can be mani- fested only in one manner and that is that we should be able to see the manifestation of this attribute of Holiness in persons who have acquired nearness to, and union with, God. If this could not be shown, not only would we remain in doubt concerning the Divine attribute of Holiness, but we would also be compelled to deny that