Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 163
163 man not at his will and pleasure but out of the pure grace of God in the manner that He pleases, and at the time that He wills. Man cannot at his will obtain access to the different attributes of God but God constantly grants such access to His servants to increase their knowledge and strengthen their faith and to bestow upon them a distinctive mark of honour. We believe that even now if a people sincerely and earnestly turn to- wards truth, God will, out of His perfect grace and wisdom, manifest His attributes to them, for He likes His servants to be rightly guided and not to fall into error and drift away from Him. Islam, therefore, presents a perfect conception of God and opens the gates of certainty and faith, so that men may be saved from the darkness of doubt and error. It leads men to the presence of God in this very life, so that death loses all its terrors for them, and they await its coming with all pleasurable anticipations, realizing that they have found the truth and have experienced the manifestation of God’s attributes, and that death hides nothing but opportunities of limitless progress.