Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 166
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 166 of Hadrat A dam. It was the widely publicized verbal reports which the ready, worthy, and eager natures of the Prophets readily accepted; then, God elevated them to higher stages of certainty and cognizance through His special word, and thus He made up for the loss and defect which was inherent in merely following verbal reports. I have already written that the existence of God Almighty has been continuously publicized by verbal reports, and the foundation of this chain of verbal reports is the revelation that was sent down by God Almighty in the beginning to Hadrat A dam, the father of mankind. Sufficient proof of this is that it is obvious that the Omnipotent God’s existence came to be known in the beginning through something which has the everlasting power to make it known even today. That everlast- ing power exists only in the word of God, because this power is present and witnessed in the word of God even now. It can give accurate and true knowledge of secret matters as it should, can disclose news of the past, and can also bestow veritable indications of the Maker’s Unseen Being. It can also bestow complete certainty about Him in its miracu- lous ways and can also give detailed knowledge of the realities and the circumstances of the Hereafter, as is being attested in the present age by the authentic experiences of recipients of revelation. This essential quality is not present in intellect. Accordingly, it has been proven that if a newborn infant, being totally deprived of the knowledge of verbal reports, is left only to his intellectual abili- ties for the recognition of God, he remains completely unaware of the existence of God, His perfect attributes, and the world of reward and punishment. Hence, the ability to teach true cognizance [of God] is proven only in the word of God, and not in reason; therefore, every wise person will have to admit that the word of God is the basis of belief and faith and that by no means can the ideas of reason be their basis. Although rational capacity is inherent in human nature, this capacity is useless without the guidance of the divine word—as is the case with visual capacity, which is inherent in the eyes, but is mean- ingless without the sun. And just as the light of the sun proves its own