The Descent of the Messiah — Page 68
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH in his writings, or if he cites proverbs and phrases from the peo- ple of the past. This is because the excellence of his linguistic eloquence is an established fact-one that flows like a river and moves like the wind. He is a worm, not a human, who, being unskilled, would object to the eloquence and articulacy of one who has demon- strated the miracle of eloquence by producing many books in Arabic and established that the miracle of eloquent writing has been given to him as abundantly as an ocean. There have always been such wicked people who have not shied away from criti- cising even the Divine Word and, despite being empty-headed, did not refrain from raising objections. For example, some evil- doers have objected that certain verses of the Sürah [that begins with the words [ ¹ إِقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَانْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ of the Holy Quran are derived from poems of Imraul-Qais, meaning that those verses have been taken from those poems. They should also have con- sidered: from which Arab poet's works did the Holy Quran derive the accounts of earlier scriptures-presented with such great elegance-as well as the spiritual insights and truths con- veyed in this miraculous text? Such people are blind, they do not possess sight, for they do not see the perfection that flows like a river and they instead create misgivings if a sentence or two seems to coincide with an- other. These people are of the same essence as he who uttered the words: فَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ 1 "The Hour has drawn nigh, and the moon is rent asunder. " Al-Qamar 54:2. [Publisher] 2 "So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators. " Al-Mu'minūn, 23:15 [Publisher] 68