Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 135
135 PArT T Wo to impart teachings that lead to salvation—was accomplished h oly Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, he adds that God did not stop him from spreading the Faith, for h e intended to warn and punish the c hristians through him. What justice and what fairness!! Imagine how he has manipulated the facts. The clergyman would rather bring down divine chastisement on own his people than accept the Prophethood of Muhammad! h ow pitiable is his prejudice. What an atrocious statement about punishment. Alas, the padre felt no fear of God in expressing such prejudicial views. o therwise, it is obvious that it is the height of disbelief, daring and obstinacy to sug- gest that, finding the world shrouded in error and misguidance, God plunged it into even greater error! o ne wonders at the honesty and piety of these clerics who, in their hostility towards the h oly Prophet, do not hesitate to deny that God is the Source of Guidance. Surely, no reasonable person can ever believe that at a time when error and mis- guidance were pandemic and people were immersed in idolatry and creature-worship, the best plan that God could think of was to make their condition even worse and to impose upon them someone who, instead of correcting their ways, would plunge them—as the priest alleges—into even greater misguidance by declaring that God did not pollute h imself with blood and filth [by entering into a woman’s womb], was and is above and beyond being born in human form, pain, agony and death. c an anyone honestly think, or the conscience of any honest person accept, that such are the attributes of the Noble and Merciful God, and that h e responds to the prevailing evil in the world by plunging them into a far deeper abyss of misguidance? Any rational person can understand that when ignorance and misguidance spreads in the world, it requires a r eformer. Any sensible person can clearly see that a manifestation of God’s attribute of guidance is needed at the time of widespread misguidance and corruption. But how can those who are blinded by prejudice be made to see? Alas, the clergymen who exhibit such obduracy seem to have no fear of the d ay of r eckoning. And why should they when they rely on the atonement of their sins through the Messiah. o therwise, it is unreasonable to believe that the clergy can be so ignorant of the eternal divine practice of God and believe that God—who sent his Messenger at the time of M u s a [Moses] because a