Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 187
Footnote Number Eleven 187 cannot be concluded that people particularly excel in doing good deeds during those months and remain engrossed in vice and immorality dur- ing the other months. Instead, it must be understood that those are the months when cultivators are in need of rain, and the rain therein promotes growth of vegetation during the whole year. Similarly, the descent of Allah’s Word is not due to anyone’s purity and piety. In other words, the effective cause of that Word’s descent cannot be some- one’s extreme holiness or spiritual purity, nor one’s thirst or hunger for righteousness. As I have stated repeatedly, the real cause of the descent of heavenly scriptures is the genuine need for it; namely, the darkness and gloom that envelop the world call for a heavenly light, so that, by descending, it may dissipate the darkness. There is an elegant reference to the same, as Allah the Almighty says in His Holy Word: 1. ۤاَّنِا ُهٰنْلَزْنَا ْيِف ِةَلْيَل ِرْدَقْلا Although this Lailatul-Qadr [Night of Destiny] is commonly inter- preted as a blessed night, there are references in the Holy Quran which also indicate that the gloomy condition of the world is like a Lailatul-Qadr on account of its hidden qualities, and truthfulness, steadfastness, devotion, and worship during this period of darkness have tremendous value in the estimation of God. And it was that very dark condition that—having reached its ultimate point during the advent of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be on him, demanded the descent of the Glorious Light. In view of the dark condition of the time, and as a mercy for those afflicted with darkness, there was an upsurge of the attribute of ra h m a niyyat and heavenly blessings addressed themselves to the earth. Thus, this dark condition became a blessing for the world, and because of it, the world received a magnificent mercy in that the perfect man, Sayyidur-Rusul [the Chief 1. Surely, We sent it (i. e. the Quran) down on the Night of Destiny ( S u rah al-Qadr, 97:2). [Publisher]