The Holy War — Page 271
Proceedings—Debate 5 June 1893 271 A— The Quran has not made any claim for eloquence and fluency. G— I shall show that in my next submission. A — Can God not speak in a pillar? G— Why not? Moreover, He can address from a pillar and yet remain detached from the pillar and the pillar will not be called the ‘Son of God’ but will remain a pillar as it was before. In fact, speaking from one pillar cannot prevent Him from speaking simultaneously from another pillar. In fact, He can speak from millions of pillars at the same time, but your principle is not in accordance with this. A— About which Prophet has it been written that ‘he is like Me?’ G— Sir, when some Prophets were called ‘god’, what part of ‘like Me’ is left behind? Indeed, by being called ‘god’, the attributes like the Omnipotent and all others become included. A— There are many prophecies in the Bible for Christ being the mani- festation of Allah. G— For 1400 years before the advent of the Messiah, scholars had been reading these books of the Jews, and these books passed before the eyes of tens of millions of scholars. Did it not cross the mind of anyone of them that a ‘God’ was about to appear? Did the Jews not know the language; did they not possess books, were they not the disciples of Prophets? Furthermore, there is the difference of opinion about this within the house of Christianity itself, and the fact that some Christian scholars agree with the Jews also supports this view. A— The signs of Mosaic Law were beautiful? What did the Quran bring?