Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 58
NU S R AT U L- H AQ Q — HE L P OF G OD 58 are not arrogant, and who—having found the truth—accept it with the utmost humility. In this age, too, God has brought together many such Signs. Alas! Would that people reflect over them and—enlight- ening themselves with the lamp of certainty and knowledge—become worthy of salvation. However, it does not fall upon the lot of the evil people to attain guidance through the Signs of God, for they shut their eyes upon seeing the light lest it illuminate their eyes and show them the way. An evil man witnesses a thousand Signs but turns away, and persists in harping upon the one topic which he fails to understand out of his very own folly. The person who comes from God Almighty is not obligated to show such Signs whereby stars fall upon the earth, the sun rises from the west, or goats are turned into men; he does not ascend to heaven before people’s eyes to bring back a written book which they can hold in their hands and read, or convert all his dwellings into gold. Nor does he cause people’s deceased ancestors to come to life out of their graves speaking, screaming, and cursing their sons with abhor- rence for having furiously rejected this true Messenger of God, and telling them that they have seen for themselves that his follower goes directly to Paradise, while whoever rejects him is cast into Hell in the utmost disgrace; and so that they organize gatherings in the town and invite all deniers to these events and say to their progeny, ‘You know that we are your fathers and grandfathers, and you know how much we opposed this man, but when we died we were thrown into Hell on account of our hostility to him. Look how our bodies have been burnt and blackened by the Fire. We have come forth out of the graves before your very eyes so that we may bear witness that this man is from God and is a true Prophet. ’ Remember, no dead people ever came out of their graves to deliver such lectures and never, in any age, did such gatherings take place. It has never happened that some people’s ancestors came out alive from their graves and then a place was appointed for a gathering to which all the people of the town were invited and the newly returned from the dead addressed thousands of people loudly in these words: ‘O people! We are grateful that you have come to listen to our lecture. All