The Descent of the Messiah — Page 88
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH Thirteen hundred years have passed since the time of the Holy Prophet, and you did not witness the time when the Holy Quran descended with hundreds of signs and shining splendour; instead, you have found the age in which thousands of objections are being levelled against the Book of God, His Prophet, and His religion by the Christians, atheists, and Aryas, and you have no proof other than a few written pages, the miraculous nature of which you are not aware, and the miracles that you present are only in the form of stories. How, then, can you raise yourself to the high tower of faith, and how can you tell the enemy that you have something which he does not—which can lead to certainty about God and save one from sin, so that he may, in all fairness, become inclined towards your religion? Otherwise, why would a sane person leave one pile of filth for another? Every blessed heart is willing to accept the truth, provided the truth can demonstrate its light. The Islam that these Maulawis, who oppose me, and their cohorts present to the non-Muslims is only the shell, not the essence; it is fiction, not reality. Why would anyone then accept it? If a person desires to change his religion to remove a malady, what would be the use of such a change if the same mal- ady also existed in the other religion? Even the Brahmu Samajists claim to believe in the One God, but only he truly believes in God whose eyes of certainty have been opened, and only he who sees God with the eye of certainty can be saved from sin. All oth- er stories are untrue, and all atonements are false. Therefore, the same living God now presents Himself in the latter days so that people may believe and not perish. The Holy Quran is the Word of God; indeed, it is the greatest Word of God, but it is far from you so that your eyes cannot be- hold it. It is in your hands now, just as the Torah is in the hands of the Jews. If you are truthful, you can testify that you cannot derive inner purity from it because the evident lights of this holy 88