Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 52
52 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA sufficient for establishing the divine ori- gin of the Noble Quran and the truthful- ness of the Holy Propheta, and does not need anything else to support it. The com- posite argument is the argument whose validity requires a set of mutually depend- ent arguments, which, when considered as a whole-i. e. when all its components are taken into account collectively is found to be so perfect that it necessarily estab- lishes the truth of the Holy Quran and of the Holy Prophet; but when each com- ponent is considered individually, it may lack the required degree of cogency. And the reason for this discrepancy is that the value of the whole always differs from the sum of its components. For instance, ten people can collectively lift a weight, but if