Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 205
Footnote Number Eleven 205 the Jews said that if he would come back to life in their presence they would believe in him. But he did not come back to life before their eyes, and did not furnish the slightest evidence in support of his [sup- posed] divinity and omnipotence. If he did perform some miracles, the same had been shown by other Prophets before him on a much larger scale and even the water of a pond possessed properties that manifested similar wonders ( see chapter 5 of the Gospel of St. John). In short, he was not able to show any sign of his divinity as his confession is recorded in the verse cited above. Being born of a weak and helpless woman, he (according to the Christians) underwent such humiliation, ignominy, weakness, and lifelong misery as is the portion of the men who are called unfortunate and deprived. Moreover, he was a prisoner for a long while in the dark cell of the womb and was born through the filthy passage polluted by urine. Thus, he sullied himself with all types of foul conditions, and there is no stain of human foul- ness and defects which this son, who has tarnished the reputation of the Father, was not subjected to. Moreover, in his own book, he con- fessed his ignorance, lack of knowledge, powerlessness, and also that he was not good. This humble servant, who was without any reason considered to be the son of God, was even inferior to some of the lofty Prophets in intellectual attainments and actions; even his teaching was imperfect, being only a branch of the Law of Moses. How then is it permissible to attribute such a calumny to the All-Powerful God, who is Eternal and Everlasting, that having been eternally Perfect in His Being, Self-Sufficient, and All-Powerful, He, in the end, became dependent upon such a defective son and lost His Glory and Greatness altogether? I most certainly do not believe that any wise person would permit such ignominies to be imagined concerning the Perfect Being who combines in Himself all perfect attributes. It is clear that if the events [in the life] of Ibn-e-Maryam [the Son of Mary] are shorn of absurd and futile praises, the gist of the real facts of his life according to the Gospel is that he was, like other human beings, a humble, weak, and imperfect man and was one of the