Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 52
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 52 So, my brothers of the Brahm u Sam a j!! When God has blessed you with eyes to observe and behold, use them to see whether there is any need for revelation or not. You can read more about this at its appropriate place where a further elaboration is given upon this subject in the context of rational arguments in support of the Holy Quran. If then you fear God, opt for the right path, and let the station of guid- ance be the prerogative of God alone, this will be a sign of your great fortune. Otherwise, if at all you can, do try to counter these arguments logically, but do not act like madmen who merely keep babbling and do not listen. I wonder about the countless veils that cover your hearts, which refuse to be lifted even though you are being continuously cut down in all your arguments and at every step you are stopped in your tracks. What sort of hearts are these that do not understand. In what niche have you placed the yardstick of reason, and then forgotten about it, so that you regard right to be wrong and wrong to be right. Anyone can indulge in conjectures; why pride yourself in this ‘gift’. I am at a loss to understand why the doors of your hearts refuse to open, and your eyes are unable to see. Look at how reason has betrayed you, its worshippers, and fled away from you. Gentlemen!! Think hard and you will realize that to arrive at com- plete certainty without revelation is not possible. Nor is it possible to escape error, or to base oneself truly on Tau hi d, or to overcome one’s passions. It is revelation through which we are able to affirm that God ‘is’, and the whole world is proclaiming that ‘He is, He is’. It is rev- elation which, from the very beginning, has inspired the hearts with the assurance that God ‘is’. It is through revelation that worshippers find delight in worship and the faithful are satisfied with regard to the existence of God and life after death. It is revelation which enabled millions of righteous people to leave this transient world with great steadfastness and with the passionate love of Allah. It is indeed revela- tion whose truth has been attested to by the seal of the blood of thou- sands of martyrs. Indeed, it was the magnetic pull of revelation that