Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 234
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 234 speech like that descends by way of revelation, only he would entertain doubt regarding it who entertains doubts about Islam. And among the excellences of Lab i d, one was that he not only saw the time of the Holy Pro phet, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him, but he also saw a good deal of the victories of Islam. He died in the 41st year of the Hijrah [Islamic calendar] at the age of 157. Likewise, the words spoken by Hadrat ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, coincided with the words of the Holy Quran a number of times, as related by Anas, may Allah be pleased with him: ٍ قال قال عمر وَافَقْت رَبِّی ْ فِی ْ اَرْبَع Meaning that, four things were uttered by me and the same were uttered by God Almighty. If I were to mention the experiences of the saints of this blessed Ummah, and how words spoken by other people were revealed to them by God, and how the verses of R u m i ’s Mathnaw i were revealed to some, this would require a whole separate book. And I know that anyone who is the least bit cognizant of these matters will never claim that the words of God can never coincide with the words of a mortal. Indeed, anyone who has some knowledge of the Shariah [Islamic Law] will consider such a claim to be a cause for apostasy, because such a creed requires rejection of the Holy Quran itself. There is also a difficulty here, and I think it is appropriate that I resolve that also. It is that if it is permissible for the word of man to coincide with the Word of God, then would this not detract from the miraculous excellence of the Holy Quran? But, as the author of Tafs i r- e-Kab i r and other commentators have written, there is no need for any confusion here, because a miracle is not based upon such a short portion of the text. Otherwise, the individual words used in the Holy Quran are the same that were used by the Arabs. For a discourse to be considered miraculous in nature, it has to size up to the criteria laid