Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 172
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 172 for theoretical and practical activities. It sets straight many serious dis- orders. It sets forth vistas of wisdom, deep subtleties, and fine points which remained hidden from the eyes of sages and philosophers. Its perusal fortifies the power of conviction in the heart of a spiritual pilgrim, and heals the ailment of doubts, misgivings, and misguidance. Its blessed text is replete with countless supreme truths and very subtle verities which are essential for the perfect development of the human being. Obviously, these excellences are such that—like the perfect qualities of the rose—it is impossible for them to be combined in the composition of any human being. This impossibility is not mere spec- ulation, but an established fact, because God Almighty has expounded the subtleties and splendid points of wisdom in His eloquent and lucid Word precisely in the hour of their true need, displaying perfection in both external and internal qualities, and, thus achieved perfection with profound fine details in both external and internal aspects. In other words, it first lays down the essential, lofty divine insights, the traces of which had been lost and obliterated from earlier teachings, and no sage or philosopher had so much as hinted at them. Moreover, these divine insights have not been expounded in an unnecessary and redundant manner, but have been set forth at a time and in an age when such remedial measures were direly needed for the reformation of that time. Had they not been stated, the ruin and destruction of the age was inevitable. Again, these lofty divine insights have not been stated in a deficient and incomplete manner; rather, they are situated at the point of perfection, both quantitatively as well as qualitatively. The intellect of no wise man can alight upon a religious verity that has been left out of them, nor is there any doubt of a follower of falsehood that has not been dispelled in this Word. To expound all of these truths and sublime verities, which never- theless fully conform with the true needs, and to do so with such unsur- passable excellence of eloquence and elegance, is indeed a grand task— evidently beyond the reach of human capacity. But man is so inept that if he wants to describe even the insignificant and trivial affairs—that