Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 32
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 32 of the Holy Quran is so patent and obvious in the estimation of seekers after truth that, like the sun, it spreads its rays in all directions and there is no doubt or difficulty in knowing and understanding it. This perfect light can be seen even with minimal attention, provided the darkness of prejudice and ill-will does not block it. It is true that some aspects of the matchlessness of the Holy Quran are such as to require some knowledge of Arabic for their comprehension, but it is a great mistake and ignorance to imagine that the entire range of the miraculousness of the Quran depends upon the knowledge of Arabic, and that all Quranic wonders and all the great qualities of this discrim- inating Book can be appreciated only by the Arabs, and that non-Arabs are barred from discovering them. Certainly not. Certainly not. It is clear to every knowledgeable person that most aspects of the matchlessness of the Quran are so simple and easy to understand that no proficiency in Arabic is needed to learn and understand them. Rather, they are so manifest and clear that minimal intelligence— which should be characteristic of every human being—suffices for their understanding. For instance, one reason for its matchlessness is that, despite its brevity, to the extent that if it is written out by an aver- age pen it can be comprised within four to five juzw’, it comprehends all religious verities which lay scattered and diffused in various earlier books and in the scriptures of previous Prophets. Furthermore, it possesses the distinction that whatever verities a person might discover by diligence, effort, and devotion relating to religion through the exercise of his own intelligence and perception; or whatever new subtle verities he might discover, and whatever points of truth and wisdom or proofs and arguments he might set forth by the exercise of his own reason; or should he offer, for comparison, the subtlest verity that the ancient philosophers may have discovered through great toil and labour; or should he desire to discover the Quranic remedy for the inner disorders and spiritual maladies from which most people suffer; he can test [the Quran] in whichever aspect and by whatever method he might desire, and he will find that, in setting forth its truth and wisdom,