Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 118
118 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad verities and insights have been expressed through them. It is beyond the power of man to express such divine verities and insights while also maintaining every aspect of eloquence and articulacy in speech. At once instance, Allah the Exalted states: 1 ٌ ِة َِمَ ْي َ ُق ٌ ٍب ُ َت ُكُ َا ِه ِْيْ َف ً ٍة ََرَ ِه َ ْط ُـ َم ًا ِف ُـ ْح ُ ِص ُْلُْوْا َت َـ ُي Meaning, he recites to them such Scriptures which are possessed of divine veri - ties and insights. Writers know that it is extremely challenging for an elegant composition of prose to remain uncompromising, whilst also articulating a pure teaching and the highest of morals, and for the teaching to be so effective and absorbing that it not only repels ignoble traits, but also inculcates the most exem - plary qualities. The state in which the Arabs were plunged is no hidden matter. They embodied every evil and vice. They had been in such a wretched state for centuries. Yet how powerful was the grace and blessing of the Holy Prophet sas that within twenty-three years he transformed the very face of the country. This was due to the effect of the teaching. If even the smallest chapter of the Holy Quran is taken as an example, it will become evident that in addition to the highest levels of eloquence and articulacy, it is replete with all the inherent excellences and merits of a good teaching. Let us take Surah Ikhlas in which every aspect of God’s Oneness has been encompassed and every form of polytheism has been rejected. Similarly, just observe Surah Fatihah and see how great a miracle it is. It is a brief chapter with only seven vers - es, yet in reality it is a masterpiece of the Holy Quran—a summary, an index of the entire book. It encompasses subjects relating to the existence of God, divine attributes, the need for prayer, the means of its acceptance, and beneficial, fruit - ful ways in which to pray; it furnishes guidance on how one may be saved from harmful ways; it refutes the false ideologies of all the other religions of the world. One often observes that most other books and people of faith highlight the negative, defective aspects of other religions—they criticise other teachings. However, when levelling these criticisms no person of any religion presents an excellent teaching to take its place. No one is able to demonstrate, if they are seeking to save the people from a wrong, what good teaching they have to give in its stead—no other religion has this ability. This pride belongs to the Holy 1 al-Bayyinah , 98:3-4 p. 390