Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 86
86 BAr a h i n-e-a h madiyya to rebut the misconceptions of the A ryah Sam a j, who deny the creative powers of God. ☆ Moreover, we shall also have to remove the doubts entertained by the Brahm u Sam a j when we set down arguments of the need for divine revelation. Besides, it has also been confirmed by experience that unless the present-day opponents of Islam are made to realize the irra- tional and fallacious nature of their dogmas, they tend to pay no heed to the truth of Islam, no matter how brilliantly its truth shines upon them. Under these circumstances, it is not only per- missible but the demand of honesty, fairness and sympathy that we discuss other faiths in a comprehensive manner and mince no words in an endeavour to dispel their doubts and expose the fals- ity of their creeds. Since we honestly see them as having deviated from the right path, and consider their principles to be contrary ☆ A ryah Sam a j is a new h indu sect whose leader and founder is a Pundit by the name of d ayanand. The reason why I call it a new sect is that all the principles it adheres to and all the doctrines it imputes to the Vedas are generally not found in any ancient h indu sect or in the Ved Bh a sh and other reference works. It is rather an amalgamation of mis- cellaneous ideas—some the product of the Pundit’s own imagination and others taken haphazardly from various religious texts. Such are the tactics that characterize this sect. Their first and foremost belief is that Parmeshwar [God] is not the c reator of matter and souls. r ather, that all of these things are eternal and self-subsisting like Parmeshwar himself, and are their own gods, so to speak. Parmeshwar, they be- lieve, is someone who has come into power through luck or gallantry and rules over things that are much like himself and without which he would be nothing. They consider the souls, spirits and the building blocks of matter to be so completely independent of Parmeshwar that it would make no difference to them even if he were believed to be dead. [We seek refuge with Allah from such senseless doctrines. ]—Author Footnote Number 1