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86 <strong>Barahin</strong>-e-ahmadiyya<br />
to rebut the misconceptions of the Aryah Samaj, who deny the<br />
creative powers of God. ☆ Moreover, we shall also have to remove<br />
the doubts entertained by the Brahmu Samaj when we set down<br />
arguments of the need for divine revelation.<br />
Besides, it has also been confirmed by experience that unless<br />
the present-day opponents of Islam are made to realize the irrational<br />
and fallacious nature of their dogmas, they tend to pay<br />
no heed to the truth of Islam, no matter how brilliantly its truth<br />
shines upon them. Under these circumstances, it is not only permissible<br />
but the demand of honesty, fairness and sympathy that<br />
we discuss other faiths in a comprehensive manner and mince no<br />
words in an endeavour to dispel their doubts and expose the falsity<br />
of their creeds. Since we honestly see them as having deviated<br />
from the right path, and consider their principles to be contrary<br />
☆ Aryah Samaj is a new hindu sect whose leader and founder is a Pundit<br />
by the name of dayanand. The reason why I call it a new sect is that<br />
all the principles it adheres to and all the doctrines it imputes to the<br />
Vedas are generally not found in any ancient hindu sect or in the Ved<br />
Bhash and other reference works. It is rather an amalgamation of miscellaneous<br />
ideas—some the product of the Pundit’s own imagination<br />
and others taken haphazardly from various religious texts. Such are<br />
the tactics that characterize this sect. Their first and foremost belief is<br />
that Parmeshwar [God] is not the creator of matter and souls. rather,<br />
that all of these things are eternal and self-subsisting like Parmeshwar<br />
himself, and are their own gods, so to speak. Parmeshwar, they believe,<br />
is someone who has come into power through luck or gallantry<br />
and rules over things that are much like himself and without which<br />
he would be nothing. They consider the souls, spirits and the building<br />
blocks of matter to be so completely independent of Parmeshwar that<br />
it would make no difference to them even if he were believed to be<br />
dead. [We seek refuge with Allah from such senseless<br />
doctrines.]—Author<br />
Footnote Number 1
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