Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 234
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 234 should also be certain that the Executor of the recompense is, in truth, the Benevolent One who is ن ی رب العٰلم [ Rabbul-‘ a lam i n ], and none other. In both of these respects there should be such certainty as to leave no room for doubt. As to its nature, it should be so complete that it should encompass, like a circle, the heart and soul, the exterior and interior, the body and life, and every spiritual and bodily faculty and should be everlasting, imperishable, and endless, so that one who had excelled in virtues may attain his supreme good fortune, which is the ultimate point of all good fortunes, and one who has excelled in vices may attain his great misfortune, which is the lowest point of all misfortunes, so that each group may attain to the highest degree of recompense that is possible for it. That is, it should attain to a complete and lasting recom- pense, which cannot manifest itself in this transient and deteriorating world, the pains and pleasures of which end with death. Rather, for its fullest manifestation the True Sovereign has, in order to manifest His complete compassion and His great wrath—in other words, in order to demonstrate the full splendour of His attributes of grace and glory— assigned another world which is eternal and imperishable, so that God Almighty’s attribute of recompense which cannot be fully manifested in this limited and mortal world, should be manifested in that eternal and vast world, and that through these perfect and complete manifes- tations man may achieve the highest level of perfect observation that is possible within the limits of human capabilities. Since, based on rationality, the highest degree of recompense depends only upon the fact that the award being granted should encom- pass the exterior and interior, the body and life of man, fully and com- pletely, perpetually and compulsorily. Moreover, the highest degree of faith in the existence of the True Sovereign is contingent upon His manifest appearance after total annihilation of all intervening means. This sublime truth which comprises the utmost limit of insight and utmost reward will be realized only when all of the above-mentioned matters, which reason endorses as its characteristics, have been estab- lished. For, according to reason, the highest degree of insight is not