The Holy War — Page 156
156 30 May 1893 Statement of h a d rat Mirza [Ghulam Ahmad]Sahib 1 ۰۰ ِ بِسْم ِ الل ِّٰ الرَّحْمٰن ِ الرَّحِیْم The question that Deputy [Abdullah Atham] sahib has asked regard- ing the matter of Mercy without Recompense is based in reality on accepting the Divinity of the Messiah. Therefore, for clarity, it is very important that mention is made briefly of this, because, if the Divinity of the Messiah is proven, then there is no need for any lengthy dispu- tation at all. However, if it is proven on the basis of decisive arguments that he was a mere human being and his Divinity is proven false, then until Deputy sahib does not establish the Divinity of Jesus, it would be contrary to the nature of this debate to go in any other direction. In order to prove the Divinity of the Messiah, Deputy sahib said in his previous statements that while other human beings have just one soul, the Messiah had two souls: One—that of a human, and one— that of God Almighty; as if his body had two souls governing the one body. The matter that cannot be understood, however, is how it is pos- sible for one body to have two souls? And if it was just the one soul of God Almighty then in what meaning can the Messiah as be considered a human, or rather a perfect human being? Was he just considered a human because of his physical body? And I have already stated that the human body is constantly 1. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. [Publisher]