Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 190
190 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the entire world is a witness. The miracles of the Messiah which are presented in the form of stories fur - nish no evidence of any extraordinary divine succour. Today, greater miracles and wonders are shown in the field of medicine. This point is further reinforced when we read in the Gospel that there was a pool which healed those who bathed in it just once. Such springs exist even today in certain European countries. Even in India, the water from certain springs or wells possess this effect. A few days ago, there was a story published in the newspapers that the water from a certain well was curing people suffering from leprosy. So what signs of divine succour should one look to in the Christian faith? The signs of the past are like the ones I have just described, and in the present age no one can show any signs either. If one is supposed to believe blindly, then what fault have the Hindus committed 1 so that their 330 million gods should not be accepted; why should the tales narrated in the Puranas not be accepted? Dayanand invented a new movement and washed his hands of the Hindu faith by stating that the name of Ram is not mentioned anywhere in the Vedas, but the essence of the Vedas that he presented himself also turned out to be nothing but filth. The Essence of Religion There are two things which form the essence of religion and in actuality, these two aspects serve as the basic foundation for every religion: the rights owed to God and the rights due to God’s creation. However, in both these respects, Dayanand has presented nothing but filth, and he states that this is the essence of the Vedic teaching. One ought to remember that there are only two rights. Firstly, there are the rights due to God, which relate to the manner in which one should believe in Him and worship Him. Secondly, the rights owed to other human beings, or in other words, how one should show benevolence and sympathy towards God’s creation. I will speak at another time about the teachings that Dayanand has given in this respect. However, firstly I must state that in both these principles, the Christians have also demonstrated the most absurd of examples. We have already observed in respect of the rights owed to God that they abandoned the God Who man - ifested Himself to Moses as and other pious and righteous souls, and they have 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 6, no. 4, dated 31 January 1902, pp. 4-6 p. 456