ansar58 wrote:
Azaad Bro!
Regrettably you failed to grasp the point. The signs were certainly mentioned in the original scriptures but the Quran says that they are still found in those scriptures which are with the Jews and Christians living at the time of the Holy Prophet (sa). یجدونہ مکتوبًا عندھم فی التوراۃ والانجیل they find mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel which are with them. These words "with them" show that these signs were still found in the Torah and Gospels and were not removed.
Yeah, but to exactly avoid this part of your post, which I could already foresee coming my way, I made two points and not: One was my personal observation where I said that it might have been scrapped from the Torah and Gospel (which now seems wrong having been proven so by your help and willingness to clarify your side), and two that the other Muslims and Ahmadis both respectively point to Deuteronomy 33:2 and to Matthew 13:3-8 to affirm the stance of verse 48:29 of the
Qur´an.
What do you point to in regards to
Khatam-ul-Khulafah being mention in the
Qur´an in defence of Mirza
Sahib?
ansar58 wrote:
Secondly you said that how does it imply that you are a scholar of Quran because you discuss Quran but avoid hadith on the pretext that you are not a scholar of hadith.
I am afraid this still remains an assumption on your part! If someone says that I am not an expert in maths, how do you conclude from this that he has to be one in Biology? Just to confirm my personal position, I am rather a ‘student’ of the Noble
Qur´an and not a ‘scholar’. Anyways, let´s move on from this it being not the part of our debate/discussion.
ansar58 wrote:
Third point is that where did you get the criterion that first a person has to be freed off charges from the outsiders to believe in him? Is it your self-fabricated principle or its source is Quran? If it is earlier then I'm sorry to say that we do not judge a prophet according to people's self-created principles. However, if it is later, then please bring your evidence.
Further, do you think that the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa also needs to be freed off the charges of outsiders before you believe in him? If no, then why do you impose this condition on another claimant of prophethood like him? If yes, then please announce here that you do not believe in him and start clearing those millions of charges Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslim critics put on him.
I guess I should have worded myself better. I am not talking about the character of Mirza
Sahib as accused of by his opponents without any proper argument, but about the allegations and charges upon his writings.
To put a similarity between him and Prophet Muhammad, I will rather exclude the
Hadith since it being reported and collected more than 100 years after his death and they are not his own writings. In comparison to Mirza
Sahib´s writings, I will put forth the
Qur´an since both of these have not been corrupted by anyone and they both remain so from the time it was written and compiled.
1. If non-Muslim opponents were to put forth any sort of allegations upon the
Qur´an which were to be left unanswered by Muslims by maintaining a stance such as “we don´t have to answer every accusation of theirs”, then I will be badly disappointed with their efforts.
2. No person or his writings are different to the other. What my stance is on Mirza
Sahib´s writings will remain so even for the
Qur´an. I expect Divine scriptures and writings of the prophets to be free of errors, keeping in mind that they weren´t corrupted by their respective followers.
3. I am not a Muslim since I am one. I try to quench my own thirst to reach the path ordained by God Almighty. If I were to buy into everything as inherited from my elders, I would have reached a conclusion to hate and dislike many sects around the world including the Ahmadiyya.
4. The criterion is somewhat my personal one, but it has a definite place in the religions around the world. When Prophet Muhammad´s character was attacked by Christian missionaries and by the people of
Arya Samaaj, why did then Mirza
Sahib feel the need to defend the Prophet and why did he not say that “we don´t have to answer every accusation of theirs”? Did not his responses to those allegations attract people to accept him as the Promised Messiah and
Imam Mahdi? I am afraid your ‘stance’ is doing no favour upon Mirza
Sahib and neither any service to the great Ahmadiyya Community.
5. The Holy
Qur´an repeatedly defends the character and honour of Jesus Christ, as is told in the following link from your own official website:
"The prophecy must relate to one who would belong to another people but should respect Jesus and promote reverence for him. The Holy Prophet was neither Jew nor a Christian. He was an Ishmaelite. But he defended the honor of Jesus. Thus says the
Qur´an:
“[The Jews] slew him not, nor crucified him, but he was made to appear to them like one crucified, and those who differ therein are certainly in a state of doubt about it: they have no definite knowledge thereof, but only follow a conjecture; and they did not convert this: conjecture into a certainty; on the contrary, God exalted him to Himself” - The Holy
Qur´an 4: 158.
Here the Holy
Qur´an specifically says that Jesus was saved from that accursed death designed for him by his enemies. However, they only suspected that they had succeeded in crucifying him. But Allah had not only saved him but admitted him to the circle of His favored ones."
Link to the above passage.......
www.alislam.org/books/in-bible/index.html
God Almighty is the Ultimate Judge of such issues and He does not need to take inconvenience to defend anyone, but He still does defend the honour of Jesus Christ! Why does not the
Qur´an say “We don´t need to answer every accusation of theirs. You either believe Me or don´t”?
6. By again taking my criterion into account, if I were an outsider living during the time of the newly started Jew-Christian conflicts, I would have never bought into the theory of Christians of some human-being claiming to be a son of God who lost his life for our sins. I would have remained with the Jews on that for there cannot be a partner of God Almighty. Only someone like Prophet Muhammad would have been able to convince me of the truth of Jesus Christ by freeing him of the charges laid by Christians that he claimed Divinity!
This is a well worded post with utmost request to Ahmadis all around the world. I dearly hope it will be published by the Moderators around here as they have done very nicely in the past.