The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 283
282 ΑΙΝΑ-Ε-ΚΑMĀLĀT-E-ISLAM-DAFI UL-WASĀWIS what kind of reputation had they earned by the interpolation and dis- tortion in the text of the Word of God? Any verse of the Noble Quran should be given such meanings which agree with the meaning of hundreds of other verses which are available for their support, so that the heart may be completely satis- fied and exclaim that such indeed is the sense that is clearly conveyed by the Sacred Word of Allah, glorified be His eminence. It is a great sin and depravity to impute to the Noble Quran such meanings that are remote from its true meaning, as if we were trying to conceal its supposed faults, or as if the Holy Quran required to be told what it did not know. The egregious error which Sayyed Şāhib has committed is that he accepts modern philosophy to be so irrefutable and certain as if it is beyond any error, whereas this new philosophy and science is just as vulnerable as the errors which are being exposed of the former phi- losophy or science. Sayyed Şāḥib has forgotten the well-known saying: پائی استدلالیاں چوبین بود ]It is a wooden leg upon which an argumentative per- son takes his stand]. He accredited the new philosophy with an honour which solely belongs to the pure and certain Word of God. A few months ago Sayyed Şāhib, writing to one of his friends in Sialkot, said that my writings cannot benefit anyone at all; that is, they were totally devoid of truth. And not only this much, but I also recall that once Sayyed Şahib had even published in a newspaper that it is an impossibility for anyone to experience revealed prophecies or be blessed with Divine visions and manifestations, and if anyone makes such a claim, then he is one of those stricken by dementia and such thoughts are one of the precursors of insanity, and if these delusions are firmly rooted in the mind, then it is complete insanity. This is a brief summary of his statement although I cannot precisely recall his actual words. In short, I was so very saddened to hear and read such statements. I was surprised that a man like Sayyed Şāḥib, who claims to be a lover of Islam and a zealous commentator of the Noble Quran and even boasts