 God be upon him) has said in respect of the Holy Quran that its exalted excellences will never come to an end. " And Bahaullah, too, regarding: the misconception that the mental, moral and physical evolution of man has outgrown the Law of the Holy Quran, has clinched this argument with a dear and categorical statement, recorded in Haft Wadi, page 42 : ~ wi} y:J ..::..:.5 ..\jl_,J .f.. JY': ~ - )t;:,.:; .:!.1""'" ~';..Iil ,Y £. 2..~~ i. e. "How can the imperfect human intellect hem in and encompass the Holy Quran? A tiny spider certainly cannot prey upon and devour a sea-gull." The Holy Quran has thrown out a challenge (17 : 88) to the whole world, saying:
"Even if all the human beings, big and small, should co-operate and combine to produce the like of the Quran, they will not be able to do so. We have certainly made clear in the Quran all kinds of excellent teaching and guidance with indisputable arguments; but most of the people deny it ungratefully."
This mighty challenge which has not been limited by any time and space, has rung through the ages unmet and unanswered. Even the Bahais had not the courage to place before the world their much-vaunted book, Kitab al-Aqdas which they claim to be the abrogater of the Holy Quran. A ringed cat certainly cannot be a match for a roaring desert lion. The Law contained in the Holy Quran is, beyond the last shadow of doubt, perfect" unique and completely comprehensive which shall abide and function for all time to come; and not a question nor a problem there will be, to which the best explanation will not be found in the Holy Quran; so that even that great philosopher of modern age, the late George Bernard Shaw, had to tell the world that during the next century the Western World would be obliged to bow their heads before the Law of Muhammad which alone was comprehensive enough to solve their staggering problems. Reference may be made to the verse of the Holy Quran wherein it has been Clearly laid down: And they cannot a question, bring thee (the Prophet) but we have brought
thee the truth and nation. (25: 33).
The Bahais argue the world has advanced to such a high degree, under the constant process of evolution, that the guidance vouchsafed to them through the agency of human prophets, is no longer of any avail, and the Divine Being, therefore, has himself incarnated in the flesh of Bahaullah to give the world a new law that will solve all their riddles. The Holy Prophet Muhammad, they Si1Y, was the Last Prophet, and no prophet will appear after him, the Adamic cycle of teachers having c rme to a close, yielding place to the age of Divine Manifestation. The doctrine of Incarnation and Manifestation which squeezes the infinite and illimitable Supreme Being into the confines of a limited, perishable human body, is a relic of the Pagan past. The Hindus of India worshipped and adored Krishna, as an avatar (incarnation) of the Divine Being. The Greek, Roman and Persian mythologies had Dionysus, Hercules and Mithra as personifications of God in the Highest. The Christian Church borrowed these feathers from the Pagan mythology, and adorned Jesus therewith. Bahaullah, in order to get 3 foothold for himself on the soil of religious
thought, endorsed the Christian belief that Jesus was an incarnation of the Most High God. ·'The advent of the Lord of Hosts, the Creator and Saviour of the world," Bahaullah said with reference to his own appearance, "which is to take place in the last age according to the pronouncements of all the prophets, meant nothing else but that the Most High God will appear in human form on the stage of this world, much in the same way as he had manifested himself in the flesh of Jesus the Christ. Now he has appeared in the most perfect human form, for the reception of which Jesus and all the ancient. prophets had come to prepare and qualify the world." The Holy Quran threw this deleterious doctrine of the Union of Godhood with mortal manhood overboard, fourteen centuries ago, with a simple but strong argument: "Had there been in the earth angels walking about as sett