Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 192
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 192 alone as are not free from the possibility of error; or whether God has appointed means for him to attain perfect knowledge and com- plete success and whether He has also provided a book to which the above-mentioned principle of the possibility of error is not applicable. So, والمنۃ هلل الحمد [all praise and munificence belongs to Allah], the fact that God has revealed such a book has become evident to us through categorical arguments, and through this commendable Book we have escaped the whirlpool of destruction in which the Brahm u s lie like corpses. And that Book is the very same Magnificent and Holy Book that is called ‘Furq a n’—which manifestly differentiates between truth and falsehood and is free from all types of errors. Its very first quality is 1 َكِلٰذ ُبٰتِكْلا اَل َبْيَر ِهْيِف ; it alone has revealed to us that God does not desire to destroy the seekers after truth by depriving them of the degrees of certainty. On the contrary, the Merciful and Benevolent God has bestowed His favour upon His weak and imper- fect servants by doing what defective human reason could never do. He has Himself dropped down fruit from the high branches which human hands could not reach and has provided the means for attaining true and perfect certainty to the seekers after truth who are hungry and thirsty for the truth. Thousands of subtleties of religious truths were lying scattered like particles in the vast stretches of the spiritual heaven, and the water of life, dispersed like dew, was hidden and veiled in the innermost recesses of human nature, and in its deepest secret potential; to bring them all together from the limitless expanses was beyond the rational powers of man. He did not possess any discerning tool that could help him view the tiniest and most hidden points of truth, which were not clearly visible to the physical eye, nor did he have a long enough life span to collect them all. It is this perfect Book that has brought to us all these subtleties of wisdom and fine points of cognition of God, impeccably 1. This is a perfect Book; there is no doubt in it ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:3). [Publisher]