Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 308
308 external senses. It is the centre of the relationship be- tween God and man, and is the seat of God’s glory. Its relationship with the body is extremely fine and delicate which cannot be compared to any other relationship that we know of. It controls the working of the external senses through its connection with the thinking faculty of the brain and the emotional faculty of the heart. It is, therefore, more acutely affected by thoughts and feel- ings than by their actual manifestation in external acts. Scientists and psychologists have so far failed to dis- cover the relationship between the soul and the heart, but those who have been vouchsafed experience of these matters realize that there is a delicate relationship between the soul and the heart which travels by some hidden means to the brain—as oil travels in a wick— and manifests itself through the working of the nerves of the brain. In fact belief in God and His attributes lead necessarily to the conclusion that the soul never dies. For, can we suppose for a moment that God has created this delicate and perfect system of the universe and all that there is in it for the service of man, merely so that man may eat and drink and explore the secrets of nature for the brief space of three or four score years and then for ever pass into obscurity and nothingness? Reason spurns such an idea, and human nature recoils from it. The fact that there is a universe requires that man’s life should have a purpose higher than, and beyond mere eating and drinking and leading a more or less circumscribed existence in this world. Islam teaches that man has been vouchsafed eternal life and that the avenues of eternal progress have been thrown open to