Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 8
8 when sufferings and adversities are unbearable ? This is 'the most blasphemous charge against Divine justice and mercy. To what extreme does the love of this world lead ! A weak human being is first called God and then an accursed person I The righteous prophet of God who delivered. the world when it was plunged in evil and restored it to life when it was dead, is denied ! What stronger evidence of the need of the Quran is needed ? It came at a time when error raged in the world. It found the world blind and gave it light, it found it in error and gave ifc guidance, it found it dead and gave it life. The fact that the doctrine of the Unity of God had already been revealed does not in any way affect the need of the Quran, for as already shown the doctrine of. Unity as taught in previous books, was very imperfect and did not aim at the high standard re- vealed by the Holy Quran. Moreover, even in that imperfect condition, it was only upon the lips and not in the hearts of its adherents, and the Holy Quran was, therefore needed to impress it upon the hearts, and to make it a living principle for action instead of a formula for repetition. The doctrine of Unity had in fact being quite lost and the Quran, brought it afresh to the memory of mankind. The reason why the Holy Quran has been termed /^ or remembrance is that it brought back to the memory that which had been forgotten. The argument against the need of the Quran moreover, applies, if there is the least weight in it, with equal force to the Mosaic Law itself, because the doctrine of Unity was not un- known before the revelation of the Law of Moses. Do not even the Jews and the Christians admit that this doctrine had been first revealed and taught to Adam then to Setb, Noah, Abraham and the other prophets that went before Moses? The revelation