Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 476
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 476 to him are blind and devoid of sight, and God does not open their eyes through His converse and discourse. How absurd and futile is the doc- trine that one should maintain that after the Holy Prophet s as the door to divine revelation has forever been closed, and that there is no hope for it in the future till the Day of Resurrection, and that one needs only worship the tales from the past. Can such a religion be worth its name in which no direct evidence of God can be found—all it has are tales? And even if one were to give up one’s life in His path, and totally lose oneself in seeking His pleasure, and give Him preference over all else, God would still not open the door to His recognition for him, and would not bless Him with His converse and discourse. I swear by Almighty God that no one in this age would be as dis- gusted with such a religion as I would. I call such a religion a satanic religion—not Godly—and I am certain that such a religion leads to Hell. It keeps one blind and lets him die blind and takes him to the grave blind. But, at the same time, I swear by the Gracious and Merciful God that Islam in not such a religion. In fact, Islam is the only reli- gion in the world that has the quality of investing one with divine discourse on the condition that one renders true and full measure of obedience to our lord and master, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. This is the very reason why the hadith says: علماء أُمّتی كأنبیاء ِ بنی إسرائیل Meaning: ‘The saintly ulema of my Ummah are like the Prophets of the Israelites. ’ In this hadith, too, the saintly ulema are called ummat i on the one hand, and are likened to the Prophets on the other. It is self-evident that whereas Almighty God has continued to speak to His servants from ancient times—so much so that even women among the Israelites were honoured with divine converse and discourse, such as the mother of M u s a and Mary the Truthful—then how unfortunate and wretched is this Ummah that its men are not