Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 188
188 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad holy spirit. If there is, I have been asking the Christians for quite some time now to show me where this is mentioned. Contrary to this, we observe that among the other objections that the Jews raised against Jesus as , their greatest was that he claimed to be the son of God and God Himself; and this was blasphemy in their view. In the Torah and in the prophetic scriptures, if the Jews had been given the teaching that it is customary for God Himself and His sons to come to the world to be beaten, and if they had seen five or ten, then they would have had no reason to deny Jesus as. The actual truth is that the said doctrine simply cannot be estab - lished in accordance with this criteria, therefore it is empty of the spirit of truth. The second method of recognising the truth and the way of the truthful relates to the evidence and support that is furnished by common sense. If rationality is abandoned, this causes disorder both in the religious and worldly realms. Now if the criteria of rationality is used to analyse the doctrines under discussion, one would see that it rejects them from afar. In light of rationality, is it an accept - able notion to suggest that a helpless mortal who is fully characterised by human attributes and weaknesses, could be God? Would rationality allow us to believe even for a moment that the creation could ever subject the creator to lashes, that the servants of God could ever spit on the face of the Omnipotent One Who created them, apprehend Him, hang Him on the cross, and despite being God, He continues to suffer this disgrace and allows this humiliating spectacle to con - tinue? Does rationality accept that a child born of a woman, who remains in her womb for nine months, nourished on her placental blood, and who is ultimately born through her birth canal like normal children, could ever be God? Can any heart find comfort in the belief that an individual, who is called God, spent the entire night praying to be saved from death, but his prayer was not accepted? Moreover, rationality would never allow us to believe that the sins of one person could be forgiven if someone else were to commit suicide. If bread eaten by the Messiah filled the bellies of the disciples, and if this is a rational belief, then per - haps one could cure another person’s headache by smashing a stone on one’s own head. The third manner in which to recognise the truth is that God Almighty never lets a true religion perish and He never forsakes the people of truth, for this is the garden of Allah Almighty. It is never the case that a person first plants a garden and then abandons it completely. On the contrary, one waters the garden, prunes its branches, protects it, and makes every arrangement to care for all aspects p. 454