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

from them too, and later on pointed out to this wide earth and the rising
mountains and the bounteous fields as mighty signs and miracles that
attested to his being the real and the only messenger of God? Nay,
sometimes, as is recorded in the second and some other chapters of the Holy
Koran, he challenged the unbelievers to produce a single line in such a
polished Arabian style as that, which marked the lines, in which the Koran
was being revealed and flourished their inability to do so as a conclusive
proof of the Koran’s being a really inspired and God-sent work. He taunted
every now and then the false Prophets who write a book with their own hand
and pass it on as God-written and God-sent. This also proves that the art of
issuing counterfeit Gospels was well known to the generation and people
amongst which the Prophet flourished. It was also for this reason that he not
only permitted but commended men to argue and compare such books with
his own in the light of human reason and logic and even diction. In the Holy
Bible too, we meet every now and then with arguments advanced by Jesus
and Christ to combat those who questioned his inspiration and Prophethood.
Those who demanded signs and miracles, were at times rebuked for want of
faith and at other times supplied with them. ‘Ye build sepulchres unto those
whom your fathers stoned to death’ he sternly reminded his persecutors and
quoted old prophesies to prove that all they had foretold came to pass in his
life and corroborated his Prophethood. In the Vedic-fold, too, lengthy and
elaborate discussions as to the authenticity of the Vedas as a God-inspired
scripture are a common feature in works, not only heterodox but even
orthodox, that aid to interpret them. Even Jaimini himself, after mentioning
that a school existed even then, which did not attribute the Vedas to any
divine and impersonal agency but boldly asserted that they were the work of
men, though highly gifted and spiritual, enters into reasoned argumentation
to prove otherwise.
All these facts enable us to conclude that on the following four points at
any rate, there reigns perfect unanimity amongst the followers of almost all
sacred books that are extant today and looked upon as God-sent by the
respective creeds. To start with, our friends, the Pandit, the Missionary, the
Moulavi, the Rabbi down to the followers of Mormon and Al-swad and the
Moonmakers and even of the Aga khan and Kadiani, each and all, not only
admit but strongly maintain that all these books that claim to be God-sent
cannot altogether be such, as the mutual contradictions and glaring
antagonisms, with which they abound, do incontrovertibly prove. The