Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 19
Chapter One 19 Can such a belief about God’s divine power be held praiseworthy? Can a believer entertain the suspicion against the Perfect and Omnipotent God that He, at the very first stage of manifestation of [His] powers, when He had willed to disclose His divine powers to [His] ignorant servants, remained incapable of manifesting some of His much needed powers to them? Can it be imagined that He who, through a single command, created thousands upon thousands of crea- tures without any pre-existing matter and substance, did not have the power to create languages? Can reason accept that He who created man for a great purpose and made him the best of creation through His express will, had left him incomplete in his creation so that man himself could accidentally complete what was left out of him? Can He—who, from the very beginning had knowledge of all languages, and in whose deep and penetrating sight everything that could and would exist, was as if it already existed, and whose perfect power can teach and com- municate everything—deserve that one should harbour the suspicion against Him that, while seeing man unable to speak, He intentionally refrained from teaching him language with the result that, on account of His indifference, man continued to live like animals and barbarians for ages until at last it occurred to him on his own that some language should be invented? This view is so evidently false that it is refuted by the perfect powers of God, His perfect mercy and His perfect guidance, which have been witnessed in every age. It is the height of ignorance and inner blindness to harbour the suspicion against God, whose wonders of revelations disclose unknown languages to His servants even today, that, at the beginning of time, He refrained from sending down such revelations when they were needed most. The thought may cross someone’s mind as to why God does not reveal the knowledge of languages to present day savages who have to make do with gestures, and why a newborn child who is left in the wilderness is not granted any revelation. Such thoughts result from a misconception regarding divine attributes. Inspiration and revelation