Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 13
13 ance and direction. God must be kinder and more merciful than a father or a mother, for a father and a mother are merely a means for the procreation of a child, but God is not only the Creator, He is also the end and the object of man’s existence. The relation- ship between a child and its parents is temporary, but the rela- tionship between man and God endures for ever. The faculties and resources of parents are limited and perishable, but His power is unlimited and His treasures can suffer no diminution. He who is related to His creatures in such a manner and is the Master of such powers cannot forget His creatures and be in- different to their sufferings. He who requires His weak creatures to show mercy to others cannot be so merciless as to leave mankind unprovided with the means of spiritual guidance and advancement to wander aimlessly in the dark, and to lose their very sight in searching for the light. If there is a God, He cannot permit this! If He feels for His servants in their trials and yet makes no provision, we must conclude either that He has no power to guide mankind to the truth, or that to attain communion with God is not the object of man’s existence, and that man. was created merely to eat, drink, and to lead a purely worldly and animal existence. But each of these alternatives is insupportable. To imagine that He who created the Universe has no power to provide means for the spiritual guidance of mankind is absurd. The Creator of the whole must have power to create a part. If we admit the existence of a Creator, we must admit that He has absolute power and that nothing is impossible unto Him, and He can accomplish everything except whatever is incompatible with His Holiness and Perfection. Nor can we imagine that man has been created merely for the purpose of a worldly existence, for, in that case, we would be compelled to admit that an All-Wise and All-Knowing Creator has brought this huge universe into being to no purpose. No machine is ever made for the purpose merely of keeping itself working; every machine is created for some definite purpose and object. If the purpose of man’s exis- tence is merely to eat, drink and sleep, it would mean that man