Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 204
204 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad attributes. He confesses that he has no knowledge about the coming of the Hour, and if the son and the father are unified as one being, this raises questions as to how one can be knowledgeable but the other ignorant. As for the state of his holi - ness, he himself says: ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good—except God alone. ’ This contradiction also goes against the father and son being one entity. The word ‘son’ alone cannot prove that he is God. We do not have the authority to differentiate the literal or metaphorical application of a word, and say that in such and such instances the word is used in the literal sense, but in another instance the same word is used in the metaphorical sense. When the same word is used, and in fact greater is said about other Prophets, righteous people and judges, they remain to be nothing more than ordinary men, but when the same word is used for the Messiah, he becomes God Himself and the son of God. This is against the dictates of honesty and justice; it is like inventing a new religious law, a new book. This has no benefit whatsoever. The Christian priests have gone to great lengths in their struggle to prove the divinity of Christ through imaginary and fanciful means. However, to this day I have not seen a single periodical or treatise written by them, and I have seen no priest who has removed the blemish that the tale of the pool casts upon the countenance of the Messiah’s miracles. Until this tale remains in the Gospel, this blemish cannot be cleared. I repeatedly draw your attention to the fact that you must consider the attributes of God Almighty. As far as the statements of Paul are concerned, which are used as a basis to establish Christ’s divinity, it should be clear that in view of his character, Paul is unreliable and the Messiah has made no prophecies in his regard. When this is the case, you tell me, how can any intel - ligent person believe in the divinity of Christ and worship such a God? One sim - ply cannot. The entire life of the Messiah is one of failure and disappointment. If he were alive today, he would witness the signs that are being manifested at the hand of this Messiah and he would have no choice but to feel ashamed. Is this what you call acceptance of prayer that a man weeps and wails all night long but no one hears his cry; ultimately in his final hour he complains to God and leaves this world saying: ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani,’ meaning, ‘O God! O God! Why hast though forsaken me?’ God has Appointed Me and Shown Signs in My Support In this age God has appointed me and sent me; He has manifested signs in my p. 470