The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 69
PT. 1 AL-BAQARAH CH. 2 وَإِن كُنتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَى عَبْدِنَا And if you are in doubt as to. 24 what We have sent down to Our servant, then "produce a فَأْتُوا بِسُورَةٍ مِّنْ مِثْلِهِ وَادْعُوا شُهَدَاءَكُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ اِنْ كُنتُم Chapter like it, and call upon صدِقِينَ your helpers beside Allah, if you are truthful. 30 "10:39; 11:14; 17:89; 52:35. long time to provide any examples of persons with revelation experience. Little wonder that those speculators, who have had no such experience themselves and who have not been made aware of such experience in others, should deny revelation outright. According to the Quran, however, God has spoken to man in all ages. The Quran itself is a record of revelation and, according to the Quran, the followers of Islam must continue to receive revelation. The recipient in our age is the Holy Founder of the Aḥmadiyya Movement. Nobody who knows all this can be impressed by denials of revelation. He can only treat them as mere ignorant conjectures. Evolutionary accounts have little foundation in fact. It is said that the idea of God found amongst uncivilised peoples of the world today is polytheistic, therefore the idea of one God must have originated in polytheism. But it is not realized that the uncivilized peoples of today are not samples of the earliest human beings. Civilization has known many ages. Greece, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, India and China were centres of civilization and culture in their own days, but now they seem engulfed in darkness and ignorance. If ignorance can grow 69 out of civilization, why not polytheism out of monotheism? In India, Krishna preached the doctrine of the Unity of God, but after his time a wave of idolatry swept over the country; and when Muslims came here, they found idol-worship rampant throughout the land. In Judaism false gods have taken the place of Jehovah. Jesus preached a simple faith in One God, but Christendom now believes in Trinity. A lower conception can easily supplant a higher one. Islam is an historical religion. Even its enemies admit that it teaches belief in the pure Unity of God. But today even the Muslims have degenerated to worship of things other than God. These examples refute the doctrine that monotheism has necessarily grown out of polytheism. Moreover, a study of primitive religion itself shows that among the primitive people the idea of a perfect Deity exists side by side with their known by different names among worship of many deities. Only, God is different peoples. There also exists revelation; they hold it to be the among the primitives the idea of medium through which they came to have a knowledge of God. 30. Important Words: (servant). For the root meaning