Muhammad The Great Exemplar — Page 40
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 40 followed extraneous chapters and verses wasted away their lives and their spiritual perception was reduced to nothing. How can people be expected to believe a divine scripture which for nearly 2000 years has been susceptible to numerous redactions? And what is the guarantee other chapters will not be taken out in the future. It is possible, as some scholars have suggested, a time will come when the only part of the Bible that will remain are the words Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani (my God, my God, why have you forsaken me), for they will be considered the sole recorded saying of Jesus as ; this sentence will comprise the entire Bible and everything else will be done away with. However, can a lament of abandonment bring people closer to God? Thus the scriptures of all other religions are so unreliable their missionaries dare not compete with the Holy Qur’an. The same is true of other unique excellences which divine scriptures ought to commonly possess. [People of other faiths] are unwilling to debate on whether the word of God can be considered a miracle, despite the fact that the miracle of revelation is greater than all other signs, for proof of it can be furnished at any time. Conversely, the fog of mythology and legend is able to obfuscate other types of miracle. And unless external proofs and evidence can be called upon, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and