Arba'in

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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Arba'in — Page 21

Number Two 21 granted power in every aspect to remove spiritual illnesses and to have convincing arguments to do so. The attribute of guiding knowledge testifies to the grace received directly from God the Exalted without any human medium, and the attribute of possessing knowledge of the Religion of Truth testifies to facilitating beneficence, contentment of heart, and spiritual healing. Then the translation of the words after this is as follows: He is sent with these two excellences so that he may establish the superiority of Islam over all other religions. Obviously, if a person himself is not made distinct with the precious mantle of the Mahdi—that is, he is not a recipient of real insight through Divine knowledge from God, and God is not his teacher—then he cannot reach real piety merely through acquiring cursory knowledge of the faith and of false religions. How can a person draw others towards true piety unless he has achieved full and complete faith and certainty through gaining knowledge of God and the Day of Judgment! A blind person cannot show the way to the blind. Although the attribute of being ‘Divinely guided’ is common among all Prophets—all of them being disciples of God—this attribute was, how- ever, found in the most perfect and complete form par- ticularly in our Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be on him. The reason is that other Prophets had some tutoring from men as well. Thus, Hadrat M u s a [Moses] received his education as a prince under the supervision of