Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 241
Sub-Footnote Number Two 241 to be perfect is a sure sign of a lack of intelligence and deficiency of understanding. Hadrat Mas ih [i. e, Jesus the Messiah] himself never considered the teachings of the Gospels to be complete, as he himself said: I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. John 16: 12, 13, 14 1 Now, tell me, are these the Gospels which you say encompass all reli- gious truths and eliminate the need for the Holy Quran. Gentlemen!! When you have no right, according to the verdict of Hadrat Mas ih himself, to call the Gospels perfect and exhaustive, what kind of adherents are you who contradict your own Teacher and Prophet and label the book that Hadrat Mas ih had declared incom- plete as complete. Do you possess better understanding than the Messiah [ Jesus], or is his word not credible enough. If you say that although the Gospels were imperfect at the time of the Messiah, he made a prophecy that the ‘Comforter’ would come and relate all the things he had left out, that is well and good. But let me ask you, who was this ‘Comforter’, the news of whose coming was given by the Messiah in the Gospels, and who was the person that was supposed to raise religious truths to the level of perfection and describe the events of the Hereafter in far greater detail than do the Gospels. Do you think that there is anyone other than Hadrat Muhammad Mu st af a , peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to whom the Holy Quran— which claims to be more perfect than all past Scriptures and provides proof of this claim—was revealed, who came after the Messiah, per- fected all religious truths and foretold future events more clearly than the Messiah had done. If there is such a person, please tell us his name and show us the Scripture that God gave to the Christians after the 1. In the King James Version, this reference is John 16:12–13. [Publisher]