Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 181
Footnote Number Eleven 181 borne the reproaches heaped upon them with shamelessness and impu- dence like cowardly and unmanly people. They have lived with titles such as liar, despicable, impudent, wicked, foul, vicious, faithless, and hell-bound but have not been able to produce the like of a short s u rah, nor to find any fault with the excellences, attributes, greatnesses, and verities expounded by the Word of Allah. Indeed, it was, and still is, incumbent upon our adversaries because of their disbelief that if they are not prepared to abandon their disbelief and dishonesty, they should produce something similar to any chapter of the Holy Quran and should come forward with such a discourse for comparison. It should contain all of the external and internal excellences that are present in all chapters of the Holy Quran—even the smallest—meaning that, its text should be of the highest degree of elegance along with compris- ing truth, righteousness, and meeting a true need, in such a way that it should be totally impossible for a man to reproduce the same meaning with comparable eloquence in another composition. Its subject matter should comprise verities of the highest level; and the verities should be such as are not written without any purpose. Rather, an utmost need should necessitate their exposition. Moreover, these verities should be such as are totally unknown to the world prior to their manifestation and their manifestation should be like a new bounty. Along with all of these excellences, there should be another spiritual speciality that, like the Holy Quran, they should have the evi- dent effectiveness, the proof of which I have furnished in this book, and I am always prepared to provide ever-fresh proof for any seeker after truth. Until an opponent presents such a parallel, his own inabil- ity shall prove the incomparability of the Holy Quran. The reasons for the incomparability of the Holy Quran that I have stated here are by way of brevity and ease. Were I to lay down all of the excellences found in the Holy Quran as the mandatory criterion for demanding its parallel—for example, if I say to my opponents that as the Holy Quran embodies and encompasses all religious truths and verities, omits not a single religious truth, and comprises hundreds