Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 270
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 270 of the Holy Quran, then at least, by way of specimen, try to produce from any other book the excellences contained in S u rah al-F a ti h ah alone, some of which have been described in this very footnote. Alas! From where have these congenitally blind ones come up, whose darkness is not dispelled even after seeing such profusion of light? How putrid and stinking is the substance of their inner diseases that it has rendered useless all of their outer and inner senses. They do not consider in the least that the Holy Quran is the Book which has itself proclaimed its own greatness, its wisdom, its truths, its eloquence, its subtle verities and its fine points and its spiritual light, and it has proven its own incomparability. It is not at all true that the Muslims have put forward these excellences on their own. On the contrary, it itself sets out its own beauties and excellences and puts forward its matchlessness and peerlessness as a challenge to the whole of creation and is loudly blowing the trumpet: ‘Is there any contestant?’ And its fine point and verities are not confined to two or three which would leave room for doubt on the part of an ignorant person; rather, its sub- tleties are surging like a swelling ocean and are shining bright in every direction like the stars of the sky. There is no verity that lies outside of it and there is no wisdom that is not comprised inside of its all-encom- passing words, and there is no light that cannot be obtained through following it. These things are not without proof and are not mere ver- bal statements. On the contrary, it is an established and clearly proven verity which has been manifesting its brightness continuously for the last 1,300 years. And I have also set out this verity in great detail in this book of mine and have expounded the subtleties and insights of the Quran in such detail as to constitute a surging ocean for the satisfac- tion of a seeker after truth. How then could anyone trivialize this great light by mere verbal nonsense? However, if someone really entertains the misgiving that all these subtleties, insights, beauties, and qualities which have been proven to exist in the Holy Quran can also be derived from some other book, then the straightforward manner of debating it