Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 124
1 : 24 World is oi ved beyond a shadow of doubt. All aspects of a brutish life iii which a man indulges in bis passions, vanish away with the glorious m- : r;?-g of the light. In the heart that is thus illuminated, there grows up a strong aversion to the dead gods and an ardent love for the Living One. As wordly men are mad after the things of this world, he is out of all patience to attain the nearness of God and a close union with Him. In short, the Word of God which a man receives with the full certainty of its Divine origin, is the key to certainty and all spiritual blessings which flow from that pure fountain-source. When Almighty God wishes to draw any one of His servants to Himself, He sends His Word upon him, favors him with a perso- nal verbal intercourse with Himself, comforts him with extra- ordinary heavenly signs and shows him in a variety of ways that it is His Word. The Word of God revealed in this manner becomes the substitute of an actual sight of God. It is then, and not till then, that a man understands that there is a God, for he hears His sweet and awful voice "I am. " Before -Almighty God reveals Himself by His Word, a man's belief in His existence based on an observation of the material universe, does not amount to certainty. The perfect plan and consummate laws of order discovered in the universe only give rise to an idea of the pro- bability of the existence of a Creator. But the certain conclusion that there is a God, can never be arrived at, nor an 'impure life of sin dragging a man lower and lower into the pit, be got rid of, except by His Word. It would also appear from this, how absurd is the doctrine of salvation invented by the Christians. They think that the suicide of the son of Mary has brought them to the door of salvation, whereas they know it as a matter of fact that they are involved in a narrow and dark hell of sin, doubt and veiling from