t that they believe the Holy Quran to be the word of the Mest High God, is not a trick of taqiy ya to gull and dupe the ignorant Muslims, we draw their attention to the clear, categorical pronouncement of the Holy Quran (5 : 3): This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favour to you and chosen for you Islam as a religion. That "any of the prophets, Krishna Buddha, Jesns or Moses, could have made the same statement, "claiming that his message was the final Revelation, is a mere figment of ingenuity. These and the whole host of them, were, as a matter of fact, national prophets who had been raised only for the guidance of their own people; and unlike Bahaullah who changed his claim with the popular and political conditions around him, these true and righteous apostles
25 -of God said only what they had been comman.ded to say. To meet the requirements of -their people they had beea given fragments .of the Great Law which was, last of all, revealed in toto in the Quranic revelation. These national prophets, however, gave their peoples the glad tididgs of the coming of the 'World Prophet who was to bear the divine 'Law in all its perfection and comprehensiveness. 'The Mahamad Rishi foretold in the Hindu Scriptures; the Metteyya of Mahatma Buddha who was to be the teacher of gods and men; the Astvatereta, the Mercy for the world, -the most compassionate conqueror from among the Arabs who will clear the Ka'aba of Abraham of all idols, foretold by Zoroaster; the Moseslike prophet of the Torah, was none else than the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him). Of him said .Jesus in the Gospel: I have yet many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth." The Law, as stated by Jesus, was to be perfected with the advent of the Holy Prophet of Arabia.
'their If the Bahais are true and sincere in profession that the Holy Quran is the
Word of the Most High God, we write them with the best of our intention to ponder over the following verses of the Holy Book :(1) He it is Who has sent down to you the Book fully explained . . .' There is none who can change His words. (6: 115, 116). (2) We have revealed the Book to thee explaining all things, and a guidance and mercy and good news for those who submit. (16 : 89). (3) Surely, We have revealed the Reminder (the Quran) and surely We are its Guardian. (15 : 19). (4) Surely it is a decisive not a joke. (86: 13, 14). word, and it is
(5) It (the Quran) is not a narrative which could be forged, but a verification of what is before it, and a distinct explanation of all things (12 : Ill). It is 0 bviously clear from these verses that the Holy Quran explains "all things," and expounds every basic principle necessary for the welfare and uplift of man. its Law, therefore, is everlasting and eternal, guarded over and preserved by the All-Powerful God, and there is none who can alter or abrogate it.
It will be interesting and instructive for the Bahais, to know what their learned preacher Abul Fazal had to say in explanation of the Quranic verse 12: III quoted above. "It is explicitly dear," wrote he," that the Most High God has explained and expounded in complete detail, in the Holy Quran, all the principles of Law with all kinds of arguments, explaining the alpha and omega of all things; selfishness and desire cannot corrupt this Book, and the Ulama are not satiated with it; and one who turns away from and forsakes the Holy Quran, will be annihilated, and one who seeks guidance in a Book other than the Holy Quran will be deserted by the Most High God to grope in error.
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