Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 62
62 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad states: 1 ِ ْن ی ِّ َوْمِ الد ی ِ ْنَ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ مٰلِك ی ِ رَبِّ الْعٰلَمِ ِ هلل ُ اَلْحَمْد All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds, the Gracious, the Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgement. The four attributes aforementioned are attributes of Allah the Exalted, or that God Who possesses all praiseworthy qualities. There is no merit that one could possibly think of or imagine which Allah the Exalted does not possess. As a mat- ter of fact, man can never enumerate the qualities and merits that are possessed by the Noble God. The God that Islam presents before the world is the true and perfect God. This is the very reason that the Quran begins with: ِ ِ هلل ُ اَلْحَمْد All praise belongs to Allah. The gods to which other nations and scriptures have invited humanity are marred by one defect or another. If one has no hands, the other has no ears, one is unable to speak while another has some other deficiency; in short, each one is blemished by some defect or weakness. For example, the one whom the Christians deem to be God is such that, on reflection, one realises that if a period of 1900 years had not elapsed since the rise of this delusional belief, they would have had nothing in their hands at all. Now, except for the absurd argument that this doctrine must be true because it has existed for 1900 years, the Christians have nothing what- soever in support of the divinity of Christ. Those who deify the Messiah despite their ‘expert philosophy’ in this regard, would have felt shame had they reflected over the idea that a weak and helpless child born in such an ordinary way from the womb of a woman, through the filth of her internal passages, could ever be God—a child whose life depends on food and drink, and who must yield to the call of nature, and who is bound by every conceivable human need. All that the Christians hold on to as an argument is the fact that this concept has existed since antiquity. Similarly, Hindus believe that the water of the Ganges is pure and blessed, even though it is an ordinary river home to frogs and turtles just like other rivers, and the remains of the dead are thrown into it. Now if one were to ask a Hindu of the logic in this, they would respond by saying that the reasoning lies in their heart and they cannot explain it in words. 1 al-Fatihah, 1:2-4 p. 56