Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 124
124 creation with our own eyes and thus satisfy ourselves that God does actually create. No religion is in a posi- tion to give us certainty as regards this attribute of God. The Promised Messiah as , however, does lead us to this stage of knowledge. He does not ask us merely to believe that there is a God and that He is also the Crea- tor. He claims to show us the actual working of God’s attribute of creation and to demonstrate that it is not nature that creates but the Creator of nature itself Who creates. There are many instances of this, but I shall content myself with relating only two or three of them. It must be remembered that a particular result cannot be ascribed to the action or intervention of any being until we are convinced both positively and nega- tively, that is to say, until we are satisfied that that result can be brought about by that being if it so desires and that it cannot be brought about if it does not so desire. Looked at from the positive point of view, there is left room for the conjecture that there might be other beings who can also effect similar results. The assertion there- fore that a certain thing can be done only by a particular being necessarily implies that if that being does not do it, it cannot be done at all. Keeping this principle in mind I proceed to state the positive and negative proofs, which the Promised Messiah as has given of the working of the Divine attribute of creation. I shall first describe those signs which are the positive proofs of the working of this attribute. With regard to the first of them I shall merely quote the statement of the man who is the principal witness of the sign. This man’s name is ‘A ta Muhammad. He is a