Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 119
Footnote Number Eleven — Sixth Objection 119 And if they mean to imply that the door of divine revelation was closed at some point in time, this only proves the Brahm u Sam a jists’ complete ignorance of world history. Indeed they are like a blind person who strays off the road and falls into a ditch and then starts shouting, ‘Who is the cruel person who has dug a hole in the middle of the road!’ Or else, their prejudiced thinking indicates that they are intentionally trying to conceal the truth and knowingly reject something that is there for all to see and know. Otherwise, how can we believe that they are still ignorant, as only a little child can be, of the obvious fact that the concept of God’s Oneness has only spread through revelation and that from time immemorial this is the only path that has always been open to seekers of divine enlightenment. Gentlemen!! Fear God and do not take falsehood to such lengths. If your insight is imperfect, is there something wrong with your eyesight as well. Do you not see billions of monotheists—the Muslims—whose hearts have been filled to the brim by the clear spring water of Tau hi d [Oneness of God], compared to which your beliefs reek of all kinds of idolatry and diverse forms of defect and error. It is these people [i. e. , Muslims] who have benefitted from the Word of Allah, and it is this spring of God’s Word that gushed forth and carried its water far and wide, so much so that it has restored green- ery to almost a third of the withered garden of India. The hearts of many of the rest were also affected by this holy spring, for they, too, have been drawn somewhat closer to Tau hi d. The level of misguidance to which the Hindus had fallen before the coming of the Quran is evident from the study of the Pur a n a s and Pustaks 1 , whose idolatrous teachings had taken the whole of India in their grip, and which had been written just a short while before the Holy Quran. They will show you what your revered rishis thought at the time, and how deeply your devoted ascetics and mystics were steeped in false superstitions as they supplicated before lifeless idols 1. Ancient religious scriptures of Hinduism. [Publisher]