Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 197
197 clear and comprehensive than the Holy Quran in terms of moral, religious, and spiritual teachings. Its words are concise but encom - pass an ocean of knowledge. A single sentence can express tens or hundreds of meanings. Its teachings answer questions, remove doubts, and fulfil the needs of people of all times and ages. The Promised Messiah as also refuted the theory of taqd i m and ta’kh i r and taught that every word of the Holy Quran is so appropriately placed that it is impossible to move it anywhere else. Some people, because of their lack of understanding, think that there is a need to change the order of words, but the fact is that each word is exactly where it should be and most appropriately conveys the beauty that God wanted to convey. The Promised Messiah as illustrated this by presenting commentaries of various verses of the Holy Quran in a manner that it removed all doubt from the minds of those who had naively sought to change the order of their words. The Promised Messiah as similarly countered the assumption that the Holy Quran is full of ancient Israelite stories and fables. He said that if there appeared to be some similarity between the accounts told by the Holy Quran and the stories of the Israelites, it does not mean that they are the same. When the Holy Quran records those account in different words, this means that the Holy Quran does not accept the Israelite version. The Promised Messiah as also made it clear that the Holy Quran is not a book of fables, and that if it contains some accounts of the past, they are meant as prophecies for the future. They foretell that the same things will happen to some among the Holy Prophet’s ummah. Therefore, the true purpose of the Holy Quran is lost when peo - ple try to add ancient Israelites stories to commentaries of the