Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 261
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 261 and said فتبارك الل ّٰ احسن الخالقین [‘So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators’]. The Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, then said, ‘Write this down as well, for God has also revealed the same words that have issued from your tongue, namely: فتبارك الل ّٰ احسن الخالقین [So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators]. Thereupon, ‘Abdull a h became mistrustful as to how the words that he had uttered could be the words of God. He said, ‘If Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, be true, then I receive the same revelation that he does, and if he be false, then there is no good in following him. ’ So, he fled to Makkah. According to one narrative he died a disbeliever, while according to another he became a Muslim after the fall of Makkah. So you can see that the words of ‘Abdull a h bin Ab i Sara h coincided with the words of God; i. e. this sentence: فتبارك هللا احسن الخالقین [So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators] issued forth from the mouth of ‘Abdull a h and this very sentence was revealed by God. And should you ask, ‘What, then, distinguishes the Word of God from the word of man?’, the first answer is as God Himself has said in the Holy Quran—to establish a distinction the words uttered by any other than God must at least equal some chap- ter of the Holy Quran, for that is the quantity considered sufficient to count as a miracle, as God says: 1 َو ْنِا ْمُتْنُك ْيِف ٍبْيَر اَّمِّم اَنْلَّزَن ىٰلَع اَنِدْبَع اْوُتْاَف ٍةَرْوُسِب ْنِّم ٖهِلْثِّم 1. And if you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to Our servant, then produce a Chapter like it ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:24). [Publisher]