Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 139
139 PArT T Wo Let us go back to the time when the Holy Prophet announced to the people of Mecca in the beginning that he was a Prophet of God. Who was with him? Which royal treas- ure had he acquired to embolden him to take on the whole world in such a way? Or had he put together an army to pro- tect himself against all the hostile monarchs? Even our oppo- nents know that he was alone and helpless. Only God, who had raised him for a great purpose, was at his side. Further, it should be noted that he never attended any academy or gradu- ated from a school and never had any occasion to study the scriptures of the Christians, Jews, A ryas and other religions. So, if the Holy Quran did not originate from God, how did it come to exhibit such sublime and universal divine truths and certainties? Who was the peerless philosopher who filled the Holy Quran with flawless theological arguments that had eluded and frustrated all the logicians, rationalists and phi- losophers who remained immersed in misguidance until their last breath? And how could such reasoned discourses, whose truth and profundity would put the arrogant philosophers of Greece and India to shame, have issued forth from the lips of a helpless unlettered person? Is there any other Prophet who showed so many proofs of his truth? Is there any scripture on the face of the earth that can compete with the Holy Quran in all these respects, or a Prophet who underwent all that the Holy Prophet did? In particular, it is a futile exercise to prove even the historical existence of the Rish i s, to whom the Vedas were supposedly revealed, let alone to show any sign of their truth.