Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page xviii
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three xviii Rabbul-‘ A lam i n [Lord of all the worlds] encompasses everything and that nothing is deprived of His grace. He is the Source of all grace and the ultimate Cause of all light and the Fountainhead of all mercies. His True Being is the support of the whole universe and the refuge of all high and low. It is He who brought everything out of the darkness of nothingness and bestowed upon it the robe of existence. There is no other being that exists in its own right, or is eternal, or is not the recipient of His grace. The earth and the heavens, mankind and animals, stones and trees, and souls and bodies—all owe their existence to His grace. This is the general grace mentioned in the verse: 1 ُهّٰللَا ُرْوُن ِتٰوٰمَّسلا َو ِضْرَاْلا This is the grace that encompasses everything like a circle. There is no pre-condition for being the beneficiary of this grace. ( see p. 92) Logic and Reasoning Alone Cannot Lead to the Perfect Cognition of God The Promised Messiah as argues very forcefully that a true concept of God cannot be ‘discovered’ through the efforts of rationalists and logicians. Any belief, based on logic and reason alone is bound to be defective. He writes: Is there any guarantee of a person’s belief in God, if in his opin- ion God is so weak that had there not been logicians, there would be no trace of His existence? These ignorant people do not realize that God sustains mankind with all—not just 1. Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth ( S u rah an-N u r, 24:36).