Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 59
Footnote Number Eleven — First Objection 59 Go and make a just estimate of Him and stop arguing and being stubborn, For the views you express will cause you only trouble. I positively and categorically say that to follow reason solely, without the aid of revelation, leads not to one but a host of difficulties, as I shall (God-willing) elaborate at the appropriate place. The Benevolent God, having made everything in pairs, has also paired reason with revelation. The law ordained by the All-Wise is such that as long as something remains separate from its pair, its poten- tial remains hidden and very often it even proves harmful rather than yielding benefit. The same is true of reason. It serves theology in a pos- itive way only if it is linked with its pair—that is, revelation. Without its pair, it is like a monster ready to swallow an entire household and desires to completely devastate a city and lay it to waste. But when it joins its pair, lo and behold, it assumes the most beautiful form and aspect, bringing fortune to the household it enters and removing all woes from those it touches. Think for yourself. Can anything serve any purpose without its pair? Then why do you go about parading your reason alone, which has so often been put to shame on account of its false conclusions. Has it not fallen headlong repeatedly and suffered massive bruises. Tell me, what has enchanted your heart. How could you have become infatu- ated with this fairy. Do you not know that it has sucked the blood of countless persons before you, pushed its victims into the bottomless pit of misguidance and killed them. It has devoured many a ‘lover’ like you and disposed of many a corpse. What religious truths have you dis- covered through reason alone that are not already written in the Holy Quran. I do not ask for many examples, just cite a few. Had you discov- ered such sublime truths solely with the aid of reason, which were not to be found in the Holy Quran, you would have had the right to boast in your circles that you were such people who had discovered truths