Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 226
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 226 is comprised in the universe and that the Messiah is outside the scope of His rub u biyyat and that the Messiah himself is the Rabb. According to their fallacious thinking, whatever came into existence in the uni- verse is not, in principle, a creation and a new existence; rather, the son of Mary, in spite of coming into the world as h ud u th [i. e. a nascent existence] and thus being a creation, was [according to them] not a cre- ation, but he was equal to God; nay rather, God Himself ! His bizarre being has this oddity about him that although he is ha dith [a nascent creation], yet he is eternal; and in spite of his own confession that he is subordinate to the Being of Necessary Existence and is His subject, he himself is of necessary self-existence, is absolutely independent, and not subject to anyone else. By his own admission, he is humble and powerless, yet according to the baseless assertion of the Christians, he is the Omnipotent and is not powerless. Again, according to his admis- sion, he has no knowledge whatsoever of matters relating to the unseen, so much so that he does not even know when the Day of Judgment will come, and yet according to the fanciful belief of the Christians, he has full knowledge of the unseen. Though according to his own admission, and the testimony of the scriptures of the Prophets, he is a humble serv- ant [of God], yet he is God in the eyes of the Christians, and in spite of his own confession that he is not good and sinless, according to the Christians, he is good and sinless. In short, the Christians are a strange people indeed. They adhere to two contradictory beliefs and consider such contradiction permissible. Even though their doctrine exposes the Messiah to the charge of being a liar, they do not abandon their belief. They set up a lowly, humble, and unassuming servant as ن ی رب العٰلم [ Rabbul-‘ a lam i n ], yet permit [their conceived] ن ی رب العٰلم [ Rabbul-‘ a lam i n ] to undergo every type of humiliation and death, pain and suffering, incarnation and transmi- gration, change and alteration, and nascent creation and birth. These ignorant ones have made even God a plaything. The Christians, however, are not alone in that respect. Many a humble person was deified before their time. Some say Ram Chandra