Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 101
101 centuries? If He has ceased to speak, how are we to assure ourselves that He has not ceased to hear, and that His other attributes remain unimpaired? Would not His silence justify the conclusion that He can no longer see, that He has lost the attribute of knowledge, that He has lost the power to watch over and protect us, and that the universe is now going on of itself ? If His other attrib- utes continue to operate just as they used to, why has He ceased to speak? He is hidden from our sight and is beyond the ken of our physical perceptions. Revelation was the principal means by which men could be assured of His existence. Now that this door is also closed, what means is left to assure us of His existence? Islam teaches that God still speaks as He used to do; He still talks to His servants as of yore. Like the acceptance of prayer, revelation is not entirely confined to the followers of a particular religion. In order to enable people to testify to, and believe in, the revela- tions received by His righteous servants, God does on occasion speak to persons who are outside the true faith. That God even now speaks to His righteous servants has been expressly stated in the following words of the Holy Quran: