Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 7
and it gave evidence of his being a true prophet and of his soul having risen to heaven to live with the righteous. In the face of these facts, no sensible person would assert that the Quran was not needed. It should be borne in mind that the Quran has itself clearly proved its need. Thus it says : {i' j* J ^ 3) ) ^so dJJ ) ^ J ) jM " Know it that the earth had been dead, and God is now going to restore it to life again," History bears evidence to the fact that immediately before the revelation of the Quran every nation had depraved itself and all the people were sunk deep in vice. Pfender notwithstanding his determined enernity to, and blind prejudice against Islam, also bears testimony to the fact that the Jews and the Christians at the advent of our Holy Prophet were corrupt to the core and led grossly immoral Jives, though he adds DO explain away the appearance of the Holy Prophet that the coming of a false prophet at the time of a general corruption was a warning to the Christians and Jews who had gone astray to reform themselves. Any one having an ordinary share of intelligence will clearly see that this explanation is simply an absurdity and an impertinence. Put in plain words it means that finding the people of the earth in gross errors and turpitude, God intentionally led them into greater errors and brought about cricumstances which led millions of human beings farther away from the right path instead of doing something to bring them back to the truth. Is it true that when God sees the people gone astray, He intentionally leads them to greater destruction, and sends them misleaders and false prophets when they need true guides and reformers ? Do the Divine laws as revealed in external nature lend support this conclusion, and is it thus that God visits the people