The Honour of Prophets — Page 54
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 54 to our prayers and answer them even today. And as the righteous of old attained to true purity by loving Him and beholding His countenance, so too is our case. And so only a blind person who is most unfortunate would abandon such a Powerful and Mighty God. We are abso lutely certain that throughout the world, all those who have been set up as false gods, such as the Christ son of Mary, Ramchandra, Krishna and Buddha etc. were deified without any proof. This is no different than sug gesting that a goat is human, even though it can neither speak, nor walk like humans. It neither looks human, nor possesses human sense. In short, it possesses no human features. Now could anyone refer to a goat as human even though it possesses certain characteristics found in humans? For example, a goat eats as man eats, and it uri nates and defecates as does man. However, can anyone explain whether the Messiah or Ramchandra etc. possess any specific commonality which can be proven to exist in God? The reason such people are deified is nothing but a phenomenon of extreme exaltation as against extreme denigration. For instance, King Ravana deeply humiliated King Ramchandra and bitterly hurt his people by abducting his wife and taking her to Lanka. Hence, Ramchandra’s supporters at once expelled Ravana