Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 84
NU S R AT U L- H AQ Q — HE L P OF G OD 84 circumstances whose likeness cannot be found in others, lest weak mor- tals who stumble from the slightest doubts be deprived of the treasure of acceptance [of the truth]. Just ponder and look at the case of those given to doubt and negligence; their predicament is such that despite the true appointees of God manifesting hundreds of Signs, and God ordaining their support from every direction, even then they get caught up in their confusion out of their own misfortune and, failing to attain any benefit from thousands of Signs, become fixated in various types of suspicion. What, then, would be their condition in the event that there were no distinguishing Sign from the heavens for an appointee of Allah, but reliance was placed merely upon the display of dry piety and superficial worship, thereby opening the door of suspicions? So God, who is Gracious and Merciful, did not will that the world should per- ish by rejecting a divinely approved religion or person. Therefore, He stamped the true religion with the seal of perpetual Signs, and granted to the truly righteous ones the Sign of His acceptance through His extraordinary works. The fact is that God has not withheld anything in granting distinguishing Signs to His chosen faith and His chosen man. He has caused them to shine brighter than the sun, and has demon- strated such marvels in their favour as have never been seen or heard in the entire world. God does indeed exist, but the mirror in which His countenance can be seen are the faces of those showered with His love, and with whom God speaks just as friend speaks to friend. They have comprehended the perfect reality of Tau hi d [the Oneness of God] by effacing all trace of duality through the pre dominance of love [for Allah]. Tau hi d does not just mean to know God as One while being separated from Him. Even Satan acknowledges such Tau hi d. Rather, in addition, it is also necessary that one should practically—that is, with absolute passion of love while effacing one’s own existence—arrive at the Oneness of God. This is the perfect Tau hi d upon which salvation depends and which is vouchsafed to godly persons. So, it would not be inaccurate to say that God descends into them, because a vacuum, by nature, wants to fill itself. His descent, however, is not physical, but