Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 159
Footnote Number Eleven 159 subtle thought occurred to them and they intuitively started searching for God on a whim. Thus, given that, according to the Pundit, the rev- elation and intellect of such pure people—who were the prototype of God’s intelligent creation and were untainted by the various kinds of bigotry and impurity of the modern age, were engaged in their quest for the Creator of the world with purity and fervour of heart, and were personally acquainted with their own recent creation and the Creator’s recent acts—deteriorated to the point that they started to worship stones and mountains, the moon, sun, fire, and air as their Creator; then, how could such revelation and intellect of the Pundit, which per- petrated this sort of highway robbery at the very first instance, now guide the nature of those born in ages of ignorance and a time of hun- dreds of evils to the right path? These men have no awareness of their original creation which started their species; and, being overpowered by the love of the world and diverse types of corruption, they fail to live a life of purity, and do not hunger and thirst for the nearness of God; rather, they crave nearness of worldly government. Considering that the effect of the Pundit’s self-conceived revelation during the age of piety misled people into believing creatures to be God, then in this dark age its effect should be that people deny God altogether. In short, when the Pundit calls such thoughts ‘revelation’, which admittedly have been erroneous from their start, this idea of the Pundit, or should I say his ‘imaginary revelation’, is absolutely wrong and false. Whereas God is the Ultimate Cause of human thoughts and He alone inspires thoughts within human minds, and shows the path to reason, revelation—which is, in fact, the Holy Word, His voice, and His inspi- ration—is far more superior and exalted in comparison to the thoughts that emanate from human nature. It descends from Almighty God and, by His will, upon the hearts of the perfect ones, and being the Word of God, it contains the blessings of God, it contains the powers of God, and it contains the holy truths of God. It has the intrinsic quality of ِ ْه ی ِْب َ ف ی َ َ ر ال [there is no doubt in it], and just as fragrance is the evidence of perfume, so is this intrinsic quality the unequivocal and certain