Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 273
SuB-Footnote Number Three 1 The Christians, too, should reflect very attentively upon this matter, as to what are the signs that must necessarily be present in the Word of the Matchless, Peerless, and Perfect God, because their Gospel— on account of its having become interpolated and altered—is totally devoid and bereft of these signs. But let alone divine Signs, the Gospel is not blessed with even ordinary guidance and verities that must form a part of the speech of any just and intelligent speaker. These wretched creature-worshippers have so commingled their own dark thoughts with the Divine Word, divine guidance, and divine light that, instead of being a means of guidance, that Book has now become a definite means of misguidance. What was it that led a whole people away from Tau hi d [Oneness of God]? This same fabricated Gospel! What was it that destroyed a whole people? These same four compositions! In translating them, the words of the creature-worshippers were con- stantly biased toward the creeds toward which their nafs-e-amm a rah [the self that incites to evil] was inclined because the words of man invariably follow his views. In short, the Gospel, having been continually tampered with, is now something altogether different, and the god represented by their current teachings is not that True God, who was always free from 1. Sub-Footnote Number Three is referenced from Footnote Number Eleven on page 168. [Publisher]