Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 176
176 torture for other men, the son of God is made to bear punishment for three days only. This unrelenting cruelty to others and improper leniency to His own son, is absolutely inconsistent with the mercy and justice of God Instead of being let off with such a slight torture the son should have, been made to bear the heavier punishment, because being the son of God and as such possessing greater power than mortals, he was the only fit person to bear up under a heavy and never-ending punishment. In short the Chris- tian and the Arya Samajic doctrines are both open to the same objection, while some Muhammadans too are guilty of a depar- ture from the reasonable teaching of the Quran on this point. But the Holy Quran has expressed itself in clear and unequivocal words in the exposition of the doctrine of eternal hell, and hence the blame which attaches to some of its votaries, cannot be laid at its door. Another error of which the Muslims are guilty, because going against the teachings of the Holy Quran, is that relating to the death of Jesus, The Holy Quran speaks of his / death in the clearest words but some Muslims still hold him to i be alive and think that he would come back to this world. Another objection against the doctrine of transmigration is that it is against true purity. If the mother, sister or daughter of a person dies to-day, she may be reborn to-rnorrow and in a few years become the wife of the self-same person and thus rela- tions may be contracted which are prohibited by the Vedas. This difficulty which vitiates the purity of the family life cannot be obviated unless the birth of every child is attended with a document containing particulars as to the relations in which it stood to different persons in the previous birth. But since no such arrangement has been made, the upholders of this doctrine shall have to confess that Almighty God Himself is the cause of spreading an evil in this world. But leaving aside these objec-