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Part two<br />
139<br />
Let us go back to the time when the Holy Prophet<br />
announced to the people of Mecca in the beginning that he<br />
was a Prophet of God. Who was with him? Which royal treasure<br />
had he acquired to embolden him to take on the whole<br />
world in such a way? Or had he put together an army to protect<br />
himself against all the hostile monarchs? Even our opponents<br />
know that he was alone and helpless. Only God, who<br />
had raised him for a great purpose, was at his side. Further, it<br />
should be noted that he never attended any academy or graduated<br />
from a school and never had any occasion to study the<br />
scriptures of the Christians, Jews, Aryas and other religions.<br />
So, if the Holy Quran did not originate from God, how did<br />
it come to exhibit such sublime and universal divine truths<br />
and certainties? Who was the peerless philosopher who filled<br />
the Holy Quran with flawless theological arguments that had<br />
eluded and frustrated all the logicians, rationalists and philosophers<br />
who remained immersed in misguidance until their<br />
last breath? And how could such reasoned discourses, whose<br />
truth and profundity would put the arrogant philosophers of<br />
Greece and India to shame, have issued forth from the lips of<br />
a helpless unlettered person? Is there any other Prophet who<br />
showed so many proofs of his truth? Is there any scripture on<br />
the face of the earth that can compete with the Holy Quran<br />
in all these respects, or a Prophet who underwent all that<br />
the Holy Prophet did? In particular, it is a futile exercise to<br />
prove even the historical existence of the Rishis, to whom the<br />
Vedas were supposedly revealed, let alone to show any sign of<br />
their truth.