Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 97
Footnote Number Eleven 97 mourning within their own home. It is a pity that they fail to reflect whether a book written out of selfish motives can exhibit such Signs that it should be the most superior and sublime of all books in wisdom, knowledge, truth, and subtle verities, and that man cannot compete against it. Can a book be called a man-made fabrication if all of mankind utterly fails to bring forth its like even if they exert themselves to death! Is it fair that such a noble, innocent, pure, and perfect man should be called conceited and driven by selfish motives, who received no share of worldly learning whatsoever and was unlettered and totally unac- quainted with traditional knowledge, and yet, through the excellences of his superb knowledge, he put the intellectuals to shame in their own eyes, shattered the arrogance of all philosophers, and showed the path of God to those who had lost the way? If such an accomplishment was the work of man, it would be as if he were not man but God Himself, who performed an accomplishment which human capacities are inca- pable and unable to achieve. If the Holy Prophet who brought the Holy Quran is, God forbid, a conceited man, then what name should we give to the great intellectuals, sages, and philosophers—who were called ‘gods’ and were deemed by creature-worshippers as the ‘lords of all the worlds’—who could not equal him in the excellence of knowledge? Indeed, their words in comparison to the Holy Quran are not worth even as much as half a drop of water is in comparison to the ocean. It is a pity that they do not realize that when they deem it permissible to denigrate the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, it is tantamount to denigrating the entire world. Whether someone is proud of his intellect or claims to be a follower of another Prophet, the only straight path for him is that he should first strive his utmost and produce by means of his own intellect or his revealed book the verities and insights to compare with the wisdom-laden ver- ities in the Holy Quran. Thereafter, he may utter any nonsense that he so desires. However, before undertaking this enterprise, whatever he does to denigrate the Holy Quran or to speak ill of Kh a tamul-Anbiy a’ [the Seal of the Prophets], then those very words, in fact, apply to the