Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 35
CHAPTER One 35 give it to any of the scholars of Arabic, who are found in this country in the hundreds of thousands, with the request that he should write on that topic in his own words, covering all subtleties and fine points. When such a composition is ready, it should be sent to me. I shall then make it very clear, in a plain and lucid discourse, which everyone who can read Urdu will be able to understand easily, how his piece of writing is totally deprived and devoid of the excellent qualities of the Quran. Here, it should also be remembered that just as the characteristics of other things are learned through repeated tests and experiments, the distinctive quality of the Holy Quran’s matchlessness in respect of its lucidity and eloquence can also be known only through test and exper- iment. God has prescribed only one course to discover the distinctive qualities of things; that if we are in doubt about a particular distinctive quality of a thing we should go on repeating the experiments until we are fully satisfied. Anybody who persists in doubting a quality, which is found to exist in an object through experiments, by saying that he cannot find any rationale for it, is surely mad or insane. For instance, if a person knows from repeated tests and experiments that arsenic is a fatal poison, but continues to deny it by saying that he does not know why it has this fatal quality, such a person will be regarded by the wise as insane; rather, worse than the insane. It is a self evident truth that different elements have different prop- erties. When the specific property of something has been verified by repeated experiments, can denying it be called anything other than madness or insanity. The greatest folly, however, is to deny the attrib- utes and acts of God Almighty. For, in the case of all other things, the peculiar qualities that distinguish them from others can be proven only through experiment, it is not necessary to provide a rational ground for it. But as I have already stated in the case of divine attributes, the fact that 1 His existence, His attributes, and His acts are not shared by 1. In the original Urdu edition of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part III, the main text ended here. The following portion of the main text is from Part IV. [Publisher]