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Proceedings—Debate 5 June 1893 279 good treatment either. The definition of mercy makes it clear that the person is being called to account in some way and he is freed through mercy. It is entirely up to you to remain obstinate, but this issue is manifestly clear. 11. It is a strange impediment that a matter, which is manifestly unworthy, should not be so called. If we were to suppose that God committed an injustice or uttered a falsehood, is it then obligatory that we should not call God unworthy for such actions? We for our account will call these acts as unworthy and that imaginary ‘God’ a false god. We do indeed see that God has made it permissible in His Word, for human beings to eat the flesh of animals and some other animals like lions and eagles have become permissible by the natural disposition of man. However, due to one such visible issue, His manifest justice cannot be eliminated. There must be a reason for this to be declared to be true which we are not aware of but our not knowing this reason does not negate it. 12. To say that upon the Word becoming flesh means that the body also became a Divinity, may be your terminology; our mean- ing is that becoming flesh indicates to the manifestation of God. 13. Sir, how can you declare false our examples of incompara- bility and limitlessness which is an unyielding fact? Are these two attributes not the same in essence, because absolutely incomparable cannot be from limitlessness? Time and space for both remain the same. Please reply after thinking about it. 14. We shall accept it when you give us the proof that there is a miracle in the Quran or that the Quran itself is a miracle. This reminds me of someone who narrated a humorous tale to a king where seven handkerchiefs were unwrapped and spread before the king, and he was told that there was a headdress of the Divine in these that only a trueborn can see and it remains invisible to the illegitimate. Similarly, sir, you have suggested that if we cannot see those miracles, it is because of our faulty perception. We are quite