Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 247
SUB-FOOTNOTE NUMBER TWO کیس سے اس نور کی ممکن ہو جہاں میں تشبیہ وہ تو ہر بات میں ہر وصف میں یکتا نکلا The similitude of this light cannot be found in the entire world, For it is unique in every way, and matchless in every quality. پہلے سمجھے تھے کہ موسیٰ کا عصا ہے فرقاں پھر جو سوچا تو ہر اک لفظ مسیحا نکلا At first we thought that the Quran is like the staff of Moses, But on further reflection, we found every word to be a Messiah. ہے قصور اپنا ہی اندھوں کا وگرنہ وہ نور ایسا چمکا ہے کہ صد نیر بیضا نکلا Blind as they are, it is their own fault; Otherwise, this light has shone as bright as a hundred suns. زندگی ایسوں کی کیا خاک ہے اس دنیا میں جن کا اِس نور کے ہوتے بھی دل اعمی نکلا How pathetic is the life of those people in this world, Whose hearts remained blind even in the presence of this light. جلنے سے آگے ہی یہ لوگ تو جل جاتے ہیں جن کی ہر بات فقط جھوٹ کا پتلا نکلا 247 Such people, whose every word is but an effigy of falsehood, Are burnt [in the fire of jealousy] even before they are put into the Fire. A Christian spokesman-the same correspondent who wrote in Nür Afshān also writes the following, using a pseudonym, on the same subject: 'Had the writer not been busy in his worldly affairs, he would have shown from which sources the Holy Quran had been plagiarized. How strange, gentlemen! How unmistakably you have followed in the footsteps of the Jews. You have dragged the same objection to the Holy Quran which the Jews have long levelled against the Gospels. You must not have uttered such a blatant lie in the entire span of your life as you have done now to please the Christians.