Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 61
Section One 61 towards light. Thus, God designated that age as the ‘Age of Darkness’ [ S u rah Ibr a h i m, 14:2]. Then He said that God is the Helper of the believers and He is delivering them out of every kind of darkness into light [ S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:258]. Then He says that God and His angels send blessings on the believers so that God may take them out of darkness into light [ S u rah al-A h z a b, 33:44]. He then says that light comes from God Almighty to remedy the Age of Darkness, and that light is His Messenger and His Book. With this light, God shows the way to those who seek His pleasure, and so God delivers them out of every kind of darkness into light, and guides them to the right path [ S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:16–17]. Again, He says that God has sent His Book and His Messenger, who recites the Word of Allah to you, so that the believing and righteous ones may be brought out of every darkness into light [ S u rah a t - T al a q, 65:11–12]. Thus, in all these verses, God Almighty has clearly stated that the age in which the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was sent and the Holy Quran was revealed was engulfed in the darkness of error and misguidance and there was not a single nation which had escaped this darkness [ S u rah al-Qadr, 97:2–6]. The remaining translation of the verses quoted above is that God Almighty says that We have sent to you a Messenger who is a witness to the state of your sinfulness and error, and this Messenger is similar to the one who was sent to Pharaoh [ S u rah al-Muzzammil, 73:16]. As He says: