Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 145
Footnote Number Eleven — Ninth Objection 145 God, in the same way, his self-invented ideas, which he deems to be good, are not the word of God. In short, whatever good thoughts occur to good people, and whatever bad thoughts and designs arise in the minds of thieves and robbers and murderers and adulterers and forgers, as a result of reflec- tion and observation, are the products of exercising natural powers and faculties, and because God is the Cause of causes, they are called khalqull a h and not amrull a h. These qualities are as intrinsic to man as the qualities to induce purgation, constipation, or other properties are natural to some plants and herbs. Thus, as the Omniscient God has invested other things with various properties, so has He invested man’s power of reflection with the quality that it helps him whenever he requires its help, in a good or bad design. A poet who seeks to satirize someone finds his mind working in that direction and he is able to produce such poetry. Another poet, seeking to praise the same person, has commendatory verses come to his mind. Such good or evil inspirations cannot be the reflection of the special will of God, nor can they be considered His work or word. The holy word of God is the word which is entirely above and beyond the capacity of mortal man. It is replete with the qualities of perfection, power and holiness. The primary condition for its manifes- tation and descent is that all human faculties of the recipient, such as reason and insight, should lie totally dormant as though he were like a corpse. All means should be cut off, and God, whose being is actual and real, should cause His word to descend upon someone’s heart by His special design. Hence, it should be understood that as the light of the sun comes only from heaven and cannot be produced inside the eye, in the same way the light of revelation descends only from God and by His will, and does not arise from inside a person. As God truly exists and as He truly sees, hears, knows and speaks, His word should also descend from the same Self-Subsisting and All-Sustaining God,