Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 487
UNDATED 487 1 َوْنِا ْنِّم ٍةَّمُا اَّلِا اَلَخ اَهْيِف ٌرْيِذَن َوْنِا ْنِّم ٍةَّمُا اَّلِا اَلَخ اَهْيِف ٌرْيِذَن therefore, it is possible that he [Zoroaster], too, was one of the Messengers. Question No. 2— You have written in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya that a hallmark of Divine revelation is that in every aspect it is superior to other words. The Torah and the Gospel are also the word of God. Do they also possess this characteristic? The Promised Messiah as replied: Regarding these books it is written in the Holy Quran: 2 َنْوُفِّرَحُي َمِلَكْلا ْنَع ٖهِعِضاَوَّم َنْوُفِّرَحُي َمِلَكْلا ْنَع ٖهِعِضاَوَّم that those people would add something from themselves by way of explanation. Therefore, how can such a quality be found in the books that have been distorted and altered? At this point, Hadrat H ak i mul-Ummat ra [Sage of the Ummah— Hadrat Maulaw i Noor-ud-Deen ra ] submitted: Your Holiness, it is written in the Torah, ‘Then Moses, man of God, died, and no one like Moses was ever born nor would ever be born, and no one knows his sepulchre to this day. ’ How can these statements possibly be of the Prophet Moses as ? And as for the Gospel, the Christians themselves accept that the original 1. And there is no people to whom a Warner has not been sent ( S u rah F at ir, 35:25). [Publisher] 2. They pervert the words from their proper places ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:14). [Publisher]