Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 33
CHAPTER One 33 the Holy Quran encompasses everything like a circle and that no reli- gious verity is left out of it. Rather, it completes and corrects the veri- ties that past philosophers misstated due to their deficient knowledge and wisdom. What is more, it describes and brings to light with per- fect meticulousness and accuracy the subtleties that never occurred to any sage or philosopher. It articulates clearly all the subtle points of knowledge of the Divine that were written in hundreds of lengthy books and yet remained defective and far from complete. Nor does the Holy Quran leave room for any wise person in the future to come up with a subtle point that it does not already contain. This is despite the fact that it is a Book of such a small size that it requires no more than forty sheets of paper if written in normal handwriting. Now, it is clear that this is an aspect of matchlessness that even a person of meagre intellect cannot doubt. It is clear to every reasonable person that it is not within the power of man nor within the capacity of any other creature to set out every type of religious truth, all the facts and insights relating to the sub- ject of divinity, and all the arguments in support of true principles and the means of attaining them which have resulted from the intellectual exercises of all thinkers, ancient and modern, with such completeness in a book of moderate size, from which no verity has been left out. For every person, literate or illiterate, there is a clear and straightforward way for testing this aspect of the Holy Quran. If any- one should doubt as to how the Holy Quran can be comprehensive of all religious verities, I undertake the responsibility myself that if anyone—as a seeker after truth, that is, after making a written promise that if he is satisfied he would accept Islam—should set forth a certain number of religious verities from any book in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, Sanskrit, etc. , or should set forth a subtle point relating to any subjects of divinity out of his own intellect, I shall produce for him the same from the Holy Quran—provided he sends it to me while this book is being compiled, so that it can be incorporated and published at an appropriate place as a footnote in this book. However, when such questions are sent, the following condition should be kept in mind: