Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 43
Chapter One 43 received accurate answers, they could never dare say that he was some- what literate and read the books before giving the answers. Rather, with great shame, they used to say—like a person who, having been silenced and disconcerted, resorts to making lame excuses—that some Christian or Jewish biblical scholars might have secretly told him these stories. Hence, it is obvious that if, in their heart of their hearts, they were not fully convinced of the Holy Prophet being unlettered, they would have tried their utmost to prove that the Holy Prophet was not unlettered and that he was taught at such and such a school or institution instead of indulging in such absurdities that only exposed their own foolishness. This is because the allegation that some Jewish and Christian scholars were the secret allies and helpers of the Holy Prophet is evidently false, since the Holy Quran repeatedly declares the revelation of the People of the Book to be imperfect, their scrip- tures perverted and interpolated, and their beliefs to be corrupt and false; and even proclaims them accursed and Hell-bound if they die in the state of disbelief, and refutes their spurious dogmas with powerful arguments. Then how could it be possible that they, through the Holy Quran, would condemn their own religion, refute their own books, and become responsibile for uprooting their own religion? Hence, these worldly people were forced to blurt out these lame and baseless alle- gations because they could find no way to defend themselves with rational arguments. The Sun of Truth was radiating its light in all directions so power- fully that they had to hide themselves like bats, and were totally incapa- ble of taking a firm stand on any one position. Rather, their prejudice and intense enmity had rendered them like the insane and mad. First, having heard the Quranic account of the Israelite Prophets, they sus- pected that perhaps someone from among the People of the Book must have been secretly relating those accounts [to the Holy Prophet saw ], as the Holy Quran quotes them saying: