Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 330
330 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA PART FOUR is that God, in His very Being, possesses perfect power and complete dominance [Sūrah al-Hajj, 22:74]. All powers belong exclusively to Him alone [Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:166]. The idolaters are so ignorant that they consider the jinn to be God's associates; without any knowledge or awareness of the facts of the mat- ter, they have fashioned sons and daughters for Him [Sūrah al-An'am, 6:101]. The Jews say that Uzair [Ezra] is the son of God, while the Christians hold Masih [the Messiah] to be His son. All these are but words of their mouths; they cannot put forward any firm argument for their truthfulness. Rather, they are merely imitating the idolaters of the past. How have the accursed ones left the path of truth and taken their sages and saints and the Son of Mary as gods, whereas they were commanded to worship only One God? [Sürah at-Taubah, 9:30-31] God is perfect in His Being; He has no need to adopt a son. What did He lack that was compensated for by a son? If He did not lack anything, why would He do such a superfluous thing as taking a son of whom He had no need? He is beyond doing every frivolous thing and is free from every state of imperfection. When He commands something to 'Be', it comes into being [Sūrah Maryam, 19:36]. On the Day of Judgment, God shall decide between the Muslims, who have believed and adopted pure Tauhid [Oneness of God]; and the Jews, who took their saints and Prophets to be the providers of all their needs and associated created things with divine work; the Sabians, who worship the stars; the Christians, who declare the Messiah to be the son of God; the Magians, who worship fire and the sun; and all other idolaters, who are engrossed in diverse forms of idol-worship. God is