Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 90
90 BAr a h i n-e-a h madiyya I am humble and speak with utmost courtesy; Allah knows that I bear no grudge against anyone. I have not ventured upon this task as a futile exercise; The spectacle of the beauty of my Beloved pulls me towards Him. Dear people! All wisdom and sagacity lies in recognizing in this very life the beliefs and principles on which depends the bliss or damnation of the hereafter and thereby establishing oneself on truth and shunning falsehood. Man should base his delicate beliefs—which he considers to be the basis of his salvation and eternal well-being—on absolute and decisive proofs rather than being proud and enamoured by the tales one was told by his mother or nanny in childhood. To cling onto myths and conjec- tures for which there is no credible argument amounts to self- deception. Every rational person knows and understands that all Divine Books and the principles contained in them—which dif- ferent nations regard as the means to their salvation and to win- ning divine approval, and on the basis of which they consign to damnation those who differ from them—ought not only to pos- sess the testimony of the divine word, but must also be verifiable through reason and logic. While it is true that divine revelation is the most trustworthy source of knowledge, absolute certainty being dependent on it, it is equally true that if a scripture makes a claim that is clearly in conflict with reason and logic, such a claim will have to be considered false and such a scripture will