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28 strength of the Gospel, and not from himself. And whosoever from us, both parties, presents any logical argument or a claim from him- self, such a presentation would be taken to be a sign that his book is weak, and it fails to maintain within it the power and strength that a Complete Book should possess. It will, however, be permissible that if a Book presents some logical argument in a brief, concise manner but in such a way that no aspect of it is doubtful, and similar content and context and the same is found in other parts of the Book, to support the same purpose, that such argu- ment be put forth. And although such an argument should be brief and concise, yet every party shall have the right to present the preliminar- ies of the argument at some length to facilitate understanding for the population at large. It shall, however, never be allowed that one should make up some argument oneself to try and help the Revealed Book in a way similar to the help offered to a weak and helpless man, or a corpse that is put in motion with the support of one’s own arm and one’s own hand. Now, the objection that Mr. Abdullah Atham has raised regarding the ‘reasoning by induction’ is only due to a lack of deliberation. He says that if the argument of reasoning by induction, which the Holy Quran presents, is accepted, then it is not possible to believe the fact that Adam was born without parents, and we would also have to reject the Divine attribute of Creator. It is sad that he remained unmindful of understanding that for proofs by induction, the universally accepted rule is that so long as a truth proven by inductive reasoning is not pre- sented with a matter opposed and alien to it, the occurrence of which has also attained the status of an established fact, the truth established by inductive reasoning shall remain established and in force. For exam- ple, a human being has one head and two eyes, yet it would be insuffi- cient to oppose this by merely stating that there may be some people in the world who have ten heads and twenty eyes; rather, such a human being should additionally be discovered somewhere and shown. From among the two parties, is anyone in denial of the fact that