Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 311
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 311 devotion and trust. The reason is that such people have exquisitely acute sensibilities and their perspicacity can recognize the degree of a person’s sincerity from one’s countenance. These people are tender-hearted, yet they are exceedingly independent. Their hearts have been created so self-subsisting by God that they do not care the least for the arrogant, the selfish, and the hypocritical-natured person. Only those derive any benefit from these people who obey them to a degree where they are ready to lay down their lives for them. A person who thinks ill of them at every step and harbours any objection in his heart and does not have total love and devotion, derives no benefit from them and only ruins himself. After this discourse let me add that the manner in which Allah the Almighty has—having described the six stages of a believer’s spiritual development—compared them to the six stages of the physical devel- opment is a miracle of knowledge. None of the numerous books in the world that are called divine or those written by philosophers on soul and theology, or those who have written about insights in the manner of the Sufis, have taken the lead in showing this similarity between the physical and spiritual being. If anyone refutes this claim of mine and thinks that someone else has also demonstrated this similarity between the spiritual and the physical, it is incumbent upon him to produce the like of this miracle of knowledge from any other book. I have studied the Torah and the Gospels—as well as the Vedas of the Hindus—but I say absolutely truly that I have never encountered this kind of miracle of knowledge in any book except the Holy Quran. It is not limited to just this one miracle. The entire Holy Quran is full of such intellectual miracles, such that an intelligent person, by casting a glance at them, can realize that it is the Word of the All-Powerful God whose powers are manifest throughout the creations within the heaven and earth—the same God who is Unique and Peerless in His words and works. Moreover, when—on the one hand—we find such miracles in the Holy Quran and—on the other hand—look at the unlettered state