The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 468
468. Essence of Islam-1 present condition they are not of any use. They are like a citadel which is empty and in ruins, and bereft of all wealth and military strength. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, Vol. 23, p. 402]. If an opponent of Islām should object that to hold the. Holy Qur'ān as being better and superior to all revealed. Books would mean that other revealed Books are of an inferior quality, while they are the word of the same One. God, and there cannot be superiority and inferiority between them, the answer would be that from the point of view of revelation all Books are doubtlessly equal, but some are superior to others on account of the quantum of their contents and the perfection of matters relating to the faith contained therein. From this point of view, the Holy. Qur'an is superior to all Books inasmuch as other Books do not contain as much of these matters as are necessary for perfecting the religion, as, for instance, questions relating to the Unity of God, and the negation of all types of shirk, and remedies for spiritual ills, and arguments for the rejection of false religions, and the proof of true doctrines, that are set out forcefully in the Holy Qur'ān. [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 1, p. 74, footnote 2]. Unity of God in the Holy Qur'an vs. the Torah. The claim of the Christian missionaries that the Qur'ān does not set forth anything new on the Unity of God and on Divine commandments which is not contained in the. Torah, is altogether false. An ignorant person reading the. Torah might fall into the error that it sets forth the Unity of God, and directions with regard to worship, and the rights of mankind, and that there is nothing new which has been set out in the Qur'an, but only a person who has not pondered the Word of God would fall into this error.