Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 233
Footnote Number Eleven 233 will never find Him. They believe that God is so hard-hearted that He shows no mercy to His seekers and offers no tranquillity through His special Signs to those who search for Him and does not heal the afflicted ones through His loving manifestations. Rather, He leaves them wan- dering in their own ideas and does not grant them any insight other than letting them indulge in their own conjectures and, having wasted their lives in these conjectures, die in their own state of darkness. But is it true that the Benevolent God is so hard-hearted, cruel, and miserly, or that He is so weak and powerless that He leaves His seekers dazed and confused, and keeps His door shut for those who knock and does not have compassion on the weak condition of those who run towards Him with utmost sincerity, and refuses to hold their hand, let- ting those sincere seekers fall into the pit, and does not move forward a few paces by way of compassion, and does not cut short the long tale of their hardships through His special manifestation? َ عَمَّا یَصِفُوْن سُبْحٰنَہ ٗ و َ تَعٰلـٰی [Holy is He and far above that which they allege]. Similarly, the Brahm u Sam a jists are unaware of the attribute of God Almighty known as ن ی وم الد ی مٰلك [ M a liku-Yaumid-D i n ]. For, the truth of being the Master of the Day of Recompense is that the perfect mastership of God Almighty, which depends on sublime manifesta- tions, should make itself apparent and should then render to men their dues in the fullest measure, conforming to the dignity of His perfect mastership. That is, first, the evidence of the total sovereignty of that True Master should be at such a degree of perfect manifestation that all normal intermediary means should be totally removed and the interference of Person X and Person Y be completely eliminated and the presence of the One Supreme Master should be perceived clearly. When this perfect Divine cognizance has shown its splendour, the rec- ompense should follow in its fullest measure. In other words, it should be perfect both in its appearance and its nature. As to its appearance [it should be perfect], in a manner that every recipient should know and be certain, immediately upon the award of the recompense, that it is indeed the recompense of his deeds and