Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page 34
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 34 senseless and false ideas from beginning to end. In it, he writes that not only is he a Ras u l [Messenger], but a Messenger with great resolve. Moreover, he writes that his mission is to bring about peace between Christians and Muslims, and reconcile the mutual differences between the Quran and the Gospel ; he would do all of this as a disciple of ibn Maryam [the son of Mary] and be called a Ras u l. As everyone is aware, the Holy Quran has never claimed that it would reconcile with the Gospel or the Torah. In fact, it declares that these books have been subjected to interpola - tion and alteration, and that they are defective and imperfect. Moreover, the Quran claims that it alone has been crowned with the distinction 1 ُتْلَمْكَا ْمُكَل ْمُكَنْيِد. It is our belief that the Gospel, the Torah, and other similar books bear no value in comparison to the Holy Quran , and that they are indeed imperfect, interpolated, and altered. All good is found in the Holy Quran, as is intimated in the following revelation, which was recorded twenty-two years ago in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya: القرآن ال ى انّما الھكم الٰہ واحد و الخیر كلّہ ف ى ال ى وح ي قل انّما انا بشر مثلكم َّ المطھّرون. ال مسّہ ا ي See page 511 2 of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. This means: ‘Say to them, “See that I am a man just like yourselves; I have received the 1. ‘I have perfected your religion for you’ ( s u rah al-M a ’idah 5:4). [Publisher] 2. This reference appears on page 611 in the 1984 edition of the R uha n i Khaz a’ in, vol. 1. [Publisher]