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