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BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 204 excellence. And perfect excellence is conditional upon perfection of power. Should it be [falsely] deemed that God Almighty lacks perfec- tion of power and was unable to create anything else, and should He be [falsely] deemed unable to guard Himself against every kind of loss and defect, then He would lack perfection in excellence; and lacking perfection of excellence, He would become unworthy of perfect praise. Such is the case of the Hindus and A ryas. As for the glory of God Almighty that the Christians proclaim, it is a matter that can be easily understood by an intelligent person through asking a single question. In other words, if an intelligent one is asked, ‘Is it permissible to hold about the Perfect, Eternal, Self-Sufficient, and Independent Being, who required no assistance at any time for the fulfilment of the mag- nificent tasks that He has been carrying out Himself since eternity— in other words, creating the universe without the aid of a father or a son, bestowing all needed powers and faculties upon souls and bodies, remaining the sole Protector, Sustainer, and Determining Lord of the entire universe, indeed, bringing into existence whatever was required for the sustenance of His creatures before they came into existence through the pure grace of His ra h m a niyyat, and creating for mankind the sun, moon and innumerable stars, and the earth and thousands of bounties that abound in the world, through His pure grace and munifi- cence only, without waiting for any action to have proceeded from any executor and without having to call in the aid a son in all this grand pro- cess—that this same Perfect God should, in a later period, undergo a total loss of His glory and control and should become dependent upon a son for providing the means of forgiveness and salvation? And that son, too, who was so deficient that he had nothing in common with the Father. Unlike the Father, he did not create even a single portion of the heavens nor any part of the earth which might be offered to prove his ‘Divinity’. On the contrary, Mark, chapter 8, verse 12, describes his helplessness as follows: He heaved a deep sigh and said, ‘Why do the people of this generation seek after a sign? Verily, I say unto you, there shall no sign be given unto this generation. ’ Even when he was crucified,