Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 109
109 that He is the Creator, but we observe that the whole creation is governed by certain laws of nature. How can we, then, believe that God has had a hand in the creation of this universe, and how can we honestly assert that He is the Creator? Again, we are told that all things are in His hands, and all things acknowledge His might, but, when we find that thousands of men deny His very existence, how can we, in the absence of some clear sign of His might, say with certainty, nay, how can we say with honesty, that He controls the universe? The same is the case with all His attributes. Unless we are convinced that the attributes of God manifest them- selves in a manner which excludes all possibility of chance or coincidence, how can we believe that those attributes exist at all? We cannot perceive God by our physical senses, but can know Him only through His attributes. If we possess no certain proof of the manifes- tation of those attributes, how can we honestly say that God does exist and that our universe is not based on the operation of some complex but perfect law of nature? This doubt is resolved by Islam alone, for it con- stantly produces men who are manifestations of the attributes of God, first receiving a reflection of these attributes in their own beings and then leading others to the perfect knowledge and realization of God by dem- onstrating in their own persons the working of those attributes. In the present age God sent the Promised Messia- h as so that men might be enabled to attain to a perfect knowledge and realization of Him and be freed from doubt and despair. He was such a perfect follower of