Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 91
91 actually standing there his sense of touch will confirm his sense of sight, and his hand will meet a solid object. It may sometimes happen that more faculties than one are deranged; this however would amount to lunacy and no other person is likely to be deceived by it. There is, however, a further test which can be applied to detect even unsoundness of mind, and that is that a person who is labouring under hallucination may be deceived him- self, but he cannot deceive others. He cannot show to others that which he imagines he sees himself. But a reality is capable of being demonstrated to others. Therefore, when I say that through Islam or Ahmadiyyat a man may see God, I do not mean the mere working of fancy as the result of which the followers of most religions imagine that they can and do see God, but I mean the certain meeting of God which can be per- ceived not only by different faculties but can also be demonstrated to others. Nevertheless this seeing or meeting is spiritual and not physical. In support of the assertion that Islam makes such a claim, reference may be made to several verses of the Holy Quran. In the very beginning of the Holy Quran God says: 'This is that promised book which is referred to in previous scriptures. There is no room for doubt in it, for it guides the righteous to still higher lev- els. ' 46 Other religions only claim to make a man right- eous but Islam not only does that, but also leads him 45 Al-Baqarah, 2:3.