The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 365
Repeated Challenges 365 religious verity is left out by it. Indeed the Holy Qur'ān improves and corrects the statements of philosophers that were defective due to their limited knowledge or defective reasoning. Besides, the Holy Qur'ān sets out accurately and correctly truths that no philosopher or thinker has set out, and to which no intellect has gained access. It sets out in full all the fine points relating to knowledge of the Divine which were scattered in hundreds of collections and comprised of many lengthy volumes, but were still imperfect and incomplete. It leaves no room for any wise person in future to set forth a new point. Despite all this, the whole script of the Holy Qur'ān does not exceed 80 pages of normal handwriting. This is an aspect of matchlessness that a person of average intellect cannot doubt. . Every reasonable person can appreciate that it is not within the power of man or any other creature to set out all religious truth, all insights relating to the subject of divinity, all arguments and proofs in support of true principles resulting from intellectual exercises of all thinkers, ancient and modern, with such completeness in a book of moderate size from which no verity has been left out. . For every person, literate or illiterate, there is a clear and straight way for testing this aspect of the Holy Qur'ān. If anyone should be in doubt about the Holy Qur'an comprising all Divine verities, we are prepared to undertake that a seeker after truth, after making a written promise that if he is satisfied he would accept Islām, should set forth a certain number of religious verities out of a Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, Sanskrit or any other book, or should set forth some subtle points relating to any subjects of divinity out of his own intellect. If he does so, we shall produce for him the same out of the Holy Qur'ān. [Brāhin-e-Aḥmadiyyah, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, vol. 1, pp. 247 -277]