Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 203
Footnote Number Eleven 203 teaching of the Vedas strictly, altogether deny God Almighty’s attrib- ute of being the Creator, and regard all souls to be, like His Perfect Being, uncreated, necessarily self-existent, and living with true exist- ence; sane reason, however, considers it a palpable defect in respect of God Almighty that, despite being called the Lord of the world, He should not be the Master and Creator of anything, and that the life of the world should not depend upon Him, because it is of necessary existence on its own. If these questions were submitted to sane intellect—i. e. is it more appropriate and more in accord with the perfect excellences of the All- Powerful God that He should have brought into existence the whole universe out of His Own perfect power and should be its Lord and Creator, and that the entire system of the universe should ultimately depend upon His providence, and that the attribute and power of creation should be inherent in His Perfect Being, and that He should be free from the blemishes of being subject to birth or death; or, are the following things more in accord with His status, that all creatures under His control are not created by Him, do not owe their existence to His support, are not dependent upon Him for their existence and survival, and that He is not their Creator and Lord and does not pos- sess the attribute and power of creation and that He is not free from the blemish of birth and death—the intellect would never give the verdict that He who is the Lord of the world is not the Creator of the world and that the thousands of wonderful, wisdom-laden qualities that are found in souls and bodies are self-existent and have no creator, and that God, who is called the Lord of all these things, has only been assumed to be their Lord. Nor does it give the verdict that God should be con- sidered devoid of the power to create, or helpless and defective, or that involvement in the unworthy and despicable habits of impurity and consuming filth should be attributed to Him, or that He should be con- sidered to be subject to death, pain, suffering, lack of knowledge, and ignorance. Rather, it gives clear testimony that God Almighty must be free from all such ignoble and defective traits, and must possess perfect