Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 65
65 it is unreasonable to think that a person ordained by God would lead people away from the truth. If this were possible, it would discredit Divine Knowledge, as it would mean that God was mis - taken in His choice, having selected a person whose heart was unholy and who, instead of spreading the truth, only desired his own aggrandisement and held himself above God. Not only is such a thought contrary to reason and common sense, it is also explicitly rejected by the Holy Quran: اَم َناَك ٍرَشَبِل ْنَا ُهَيِتْؤُّي ُهّٰللا َبٰتِكْلا َو َمْكُحْلا َو َةَّوُبُّنلا َّمُث َلْوُقَي ِساَّنلِل اْوُنْوُك اًداَبِع ْيِّل ْنِم َو اَل ْمُكَرُمْاَي ِنْوُد ِهّٰللا َو ْنِكٰل اْوُنْوُك َنّٖيِنّٰبَر اَمِب ْمُتْنُك َنْوُمِّلَعُت َبٰتِكْلا َو اَمِب ْمُتْنُك َنْوُسُرْدَت۰۰ۙ 61 ْنَا اوُذِخَّتَت َةَكِٕىٰٓلَمْلا َو َنّٖيِبَّنلا اًباَبْرَا١ؕ ْمُكُرُمْاَيَا ِرْفُكْلاِب َدْعَب ْذِا ْمُتْنَا َنْوُمِلْسُّم۰۰ It is not possible for a man that Allah should give him the Book and dominion and prophethood, and then he should say to men: ‘Be servants to me and not to Allah;’ but he would say: ‘Be solely devoted to the Lord because you teach the Book and because you study it. ’ Nor is it possible for him that he should bid you take the angels and the Prophets for Lords. Would he enjoin you to dis - believe after you have submitted to God? Thus, the vital question is whether the one who claims to be from God is true in his claim or not. If the truth of this claim is estab - lished, then the truth of all his claims is validated as well. On the other hand, if his very truthfulness is in doubt, then it is a waste of time to analyse his claim any further. Following this basic rule, I wish to examine the claim of the Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as so that the reader might become cognizant of the arguments on the basis of which he made his claim and because of which hun - dreds of thousands have accepted him thus far.