Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 108
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 108 other. These dealings give rise to issues of treatment, compensation, and neglect of duty, which characterize a preoccupation with worldly affairs. This demands a system of law that keeps them from wrongdoing, trans- gression, rancour, disorder, and neglect of God, so that the order of the universe should not be upset. The entire functioning of society and civ- ilization depends upon justice and the recognition of God. And justice and godliness can be achieved only through a law that lays down the principles of justice and verities regarding divine cognizance with com- plete accuracy; and such a law has to be free from any kind of injustice or defect, whether intended or unintended. A law of this nature can be promulgated only by the being who is altogether free from forgetfulness, error, wrongdoing, and transgression, and who is worthy of obedience and respect by virtue of His status. This is so because although a law may be good, if the promulgator of the law is not one who, by his rank, pos- sesses superiority and the right to rule over all, and if he is not free from tyranny, vice, error and mistake in the eyes of the people, then the law will either not come into operation, or if it does come into operation for a few days, it would soon thereafter give rise to all kinds of disorder, and would result in harm rather than good. All these reasons call for a divine book because all good qualities, and every kind of excellence, are to be found only in a book of God—nothing else. The second wisdom underlying this differentiation of ranks is to demonstrate the excellence of good and righteous people—for a good quality is known only by contrast. As it is stated: 1 Part Number 15— اَّنِا اَنْلَعَج اَم ىَلَع ِضْرَاْلا ًةَنْيِز اَهَّل ْمُهَوُلْبَنِل ْمُهُّيَا ُنَسْحَا اًلَمَع That is to say, We have made everything upon the earth a source of orna- ment for it, so that those people who are righteous may be observed in comparison with the wicked, and so that by the observation of that 1. S u rah al-Kahf, 18:8 [Publisher]