An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 12
12 The Book The second part of the book deals with the erroneous beliefs of the A ryah Sam a j, the need for revelation and the superiority of the Holy Quran over other scriptures. The Promised Messiah as laid stress on the necessity of basing all arguments in favour of a particular faith upon the authorised scriptures of that faith. He invited the A ryah Sam a jists and the Christians to defend their faith by basing their arguments upon their scriptures Vedas and the Bible respectively. For the first time, Hadrat Ahmad as introduced an element of decency, politeness and respect for the feelings of others and also their scriptures in his writing, which was universally absent in the writings of the Christians and the A ryah Sam a jists. He proposed to the leaders of all religions to show due respect to the religious feelings of the followers of any particular faith because he maintained that one could not win an argument by heaping abuses and vile attacks on the faiths of others. One could only win an argument by forcefully depicting the graces and beauties of one's own religion by quoting from one's own holy scripture. Specimen of Writing Reason is a lamp which God has furnished to man, the light of which draws man towards truth and saves him from a variety of doubts and suspicions and sets aside different types of baseless ideas and improper conjectures. Reason is very useful, very necessary and is a great bounty. Yet despite all this, it suffers from the shortcoming that it alone cannot lead to full certainty in the matter of understanding the reality of things. The stage of perfect certainty is when man should believe that the reality of things exists as it in fact does exist. Reason alone cannot lead to this high degree of certainty. At the onset it proves the need of the existence of something, but does not prove that in fact it exists. This degree of certainty is, when a person’s knowledge should proceed from the stage of ‘should be’ to the stage of ‘is’, and is acquired