Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 425
Sub-Footnote Number Four 1 My humble self had written [this book] up to this point when a man, by the name of Shahab-ud-Din, of Theh Ghulam Nabi, a believer in the Oneness of God, came and informed me that Maulavi Ghulam Ali, Maulavi Ahmadullah of Amritsar, Maulavi Abdul Aziz, and some other maulav i s [Muslim religious clerics] emphatically deny the kind of revelation that resembles prophetic revelation. Further, some maulav i s among them regard such revelations to be delusions of maniacs. The argument they advance in support of this contention is that if this kind of revelation was indeed true and authentic, then the Companions of the Holy Prophet of God, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, were the most deserving and worthy of receiving it, and yet it is not proven that they were recipients [of such revelation]. I, the humblest of men, now submit that if the maulav i s have indeed raised this objection—as Shahab-ud-Din, a believer in the Oneness of God, says they did—then, in response, every seeker after truth as well as the above-mentioned maulav i s should keep in mind that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Is it not pos- sible that the revered Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, might have been the recipients of these types of revelation and yet did 1. Sub-Footnote Number Four is referenced from Footnote Number Eleven on page 268; and ‘this point’ in the first sentence refers to that page. [Publisher]