भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

Tripitaka but seeming quite indifferent to claim for his Holy books, the
gilded title of a God-sent revelation! The followers of the unlucky prophets
Museilama and Al-aswad who set themselves up as rivals to Mahomed and
claimed the prerogative of Prophethood for themselves, the followers of the
Veiled Prophet’ and of the ‘Moon Maker’ and of the Prophet Karmala and
of several others offered to me copies of their Gospels. Even the Mormons
obliged me by letting me have a copy of the famous golden book the
Prophet Mormon received only very recently in America as an up-to-date
word of God. Nor did any one of them forget to recommend to me and for
reasons similar to those used by the Pandit and the Missionary and the
Moulavi, that his Gospel was the only real revelation of God and the best
way how man should read it and it alone. Thereupon, I thanked them all and
bidding goodbye, bowed low—and as I was doing so, I awoke.
But the impression that the dream had left upon my mind was so vivid that
I could hardly avoid believing it, as innumerable saints are reported to have
done under similar circumstances—to be an actual visitation and no
ephemeral illusion. I decided, therefore, to take it all seriously and
pondering deeply over what the pious men had said found to my great relief
that although each of them had denied to human reason the right of
questioning the truth of whatever be the contents of his sacred books, his
God-sent Gospel, when one has accepted it as such, yet they all seemed to
sanction or concede the use of reason in the act of making one’s choice as to
which of the several alleged revelations was the most authentic one. Nay,
strangely enough, they had to advance reasons even to prove that men
should not reason at all, indulging in the contents of a divine revelation
when once your choice is made. In fact, missions as such are but bodies that
are out only to reason and argue and persuade men to distinguish the true
Gospels from the false ones. Not only that but even the Prophets themselves
did not hesitate to argue and reason with men so that they might be able to
separate the wheat from the chaff, the imposters from the Prophets and come
to believe in the really God-sent books. Does not the Arabian Prophet, for
example, thunder from Sura, from paragraph to paragraph, that those who
refused to believe in the Holy Koran revealed to him, will be eternally lost
and consigned to perdition? And is not this pointing to a rod also a way of
reasoning? When asked by the Faithless to produce a sign to prove his
divine mission, did he not chide them by reminding them that they had tried
to test even the Prophets that went before him, and failed to extract a sign