Testimony of the Holy Quran — Page 119
H A D R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD A S 119 Was it not simply that God Almighty established their truth with numerous Signs? The Jews, though, did not accept Hadrat Mas ih as and to this day, they deny that he was the Promised Messiah. But he was proved to be from God through his mira - cles and Signs. 1 ٭ 1. ٭ Footnote: A man by the name of Hid a yatull a h has published a pam - phlet in which he has accused me of denying the miracles of Hadrat Mas i h as. As part of his assertion, he concludes from some statements in my book Iz a lah Auh a m that from the very start I am, God-forbid, a denier of the miracles of Hadrat Mas ih , peace be upon him. Let it be clear that such people are mistaken in their views and understanding. I do not deny the miracles of Hadrat Mas ih , peace be on him; there is no doubt that he did perform some miracles; however, a study of the Gospel raises certain doubts about them—for instance, the story of the [healing] pool and his own repeated affirmation that he was not a worker of miracles. But we are not concerned with the Gospel; at any rate, the Holy Quran states that he had been granted some Signs. It is, however, a mistake on the part of our unthinking ulema that they at - tribute certain qualities to him; for instance, that he used to fashion, like the Creator of the universe, the frame of a bird and made it alive by breathing into it so that it flew away; that he revived the dead with the touch of his hand so that they began to walk about; and that he pos - sessed knowledge of the unseen; and that to this day he did not suffer death, but rather, he is present in Heaven in his physical body. If all that is attributed to him were true, then there would be no doubt about his being the creator of the world, knower of the unseen, and reviver of the dead. If, on these premises, a Christian were to argue in favour of his divinity—i. e. on the basis that the existence of the qualities of a thing is proof of the existence of the thing itself—then what answer would the Muslims give to such a claim. It would be an interpolation of the Word of God to assert that these miracles occurred as a result of prayer. For, the Holy Quran does not mention any prayer in connection with the flight of something that was fashioned in the shape of a bird and was breathed into, nor does it state that such a shape became alive in