Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 281
SuB-Footnote Number Three 281 of perfection and have completed My favours upon the ummah of Muhammad. Now, it is evident from this research that the teaching of the Gospel is not even perfect, let alone to be considered matchless and peerless. Had the Gospel been the word of God, both in their words and mean- ings, and had they possessed such excellences as are impossible to be found in the word of man, they would no doubt be considered peerless. But, as it is, those excellences disappeared from the Gospel the moment the Christians started interpolating it due to their selfish motives. Consequently, it no longer possesses the original words or meaning— neither true wisdom nor insight. Therefore, O gentlemen! Come to your senses and answer this question: ‘On the one hand, perfection of faith depends upon the presence of a matchless Book, and on the other hand you neither believe in the Holy Quran nor can you produce any other book that is matchless. How, then, is it possible for you to attain the station of perfect faith and certainty?’ And why are you complacent about it? Are you waiting for some other book to be revealed, or do you perchance intend to become a Brahm u Sam a jist, having no concern at all for either faith or God? Look where your refusal to accept the peer- lessness of the Holy Quran has landed you! And wait—the story does not end here. Your belief may well-nigh do away with belief in the very existence of God. For, as I have stated before, a major sign of the exist- ence of God is the fact that whatever comes from Him is so manifestly matchless that it points towards the existence of the Incomparable Creator. Now, as such matchlessness is not proven for the Gospel, and you refuse to believe in the Holy Quran, you have no choice but to admit that what comes from God is not necessarily matchless. This admission would, in turn, lead you to concede that someone else also has the power to create that which has been created by God. And so, according to this statement, there can be no sign to lead to the recog- nition of the Creator of the universe. To sum up, the gist of your faith is that no rational argument can be advanced to prove the existence of God Almighty. Now be fair: Is your belief short of atheism in any