Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 182
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 182 of prophecies and matters of the unseen; and the prophecies, too, so powerful that they portend in them their own honour and their oppo- nents’ dishonour, their own good fortune and their opponents’ mis- fortune, and their own victory and their opponents’ defeat—and were I to add all of these excellences to the requirements for the composi- tion offered in competition, this condition would be tantamount to heaping further ruin upon their ruin, and, as it were, killing them after they have already died. But since the excellences of the Holy Quran already described are sufficient to render the spiritually blind oppo- nents totally confuted, confounded, and frustrated—and through them alone our opponents’ condition will be worse than the physically dead—it is, therefore, unnecessary to ask for a parallel of all of the Holy Quran’s excellences. Besides, if all excellences are set out, it would greatly increase the volume of this book. I therefore confine myself to offering these [limited excellences] as a sufficient instrument for anni- hilating the wicked opponent. Even though, in addition to all of these concessions, the demand for a comparable production has been reduced to a very brief chapter of the Holy Quran, it is manifest to every knowledgeable person that the opponents—notwithstanding their ardent desire, extreme rancour, bitter hostility, and enmity—have for all times been, and still remain, too helpless to confront and compete. Not one of them has dared to come forward. Even though their failure to answer the challenge dis- graces them, condemns them to Hell, earns them the titles of ‘infidels’ and ‘faithless’, and dubs them ‘impudent’ and ‘shameless’, yet like the dead, not a sound comes out of their mouth. Thus, the fact that they have conceded every humiliation upon themselves on account of their being silenced—thus admitting the application of all despicable titles to themselves and carrying upon their heads the rubbish of all types of immodesty and shamelessness—is a vivid proof that these despicable bats are totally helpless before this Sun of Truth. Given that such brilliant rays of the Sun of Truth are issuing forth from all directions, and that our bat-like opponents are being blinded