Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 128
128 never realise these conditions so long as there reigns not a certainty in it regarding the existence of God and His two attributes of glory and beauty, From this it is clear that certainty regarding God's existence is the root and the only means of salvation. It is certainty which makes a man submit to the Divine will under trials and afflictions, and excites him to enter into burning fire for His love- It is certainty again which excites love and prepares a man for death. It is due to certainty that a man forsakes his own comforts and conveniences for the love of God, becomes indifferent to the nod of approbation and the tribute of praise, and makes the whole world his deadly enemy for the sake of one. Where the danger is certain, a man fears to approach even that which is allowable. He holds his tongue from the utterance of improper wofds as if a padlock had been put upon his lips- But such certainty is the result either of. actual sight of God or of being addressed by Him in. words which proceed certainly from His mouth arid prove their Divine origin by the power, glory, attraction and heavenly signs which accompany them. Without such revelation there can be no certainty either of God's existence or of His attributes. The Word of God revealed to the former prophets and the miracles wrought by them, cannot now serve as a conclusive argument of God's existence, for neither are those miracles, plainly witnessed by any man, nor does that word descend, at the present 1 time- The Holy Quran is indeed a miracle but it cannot serve as such unless there is a person who displays its excellences. But no one can do this unless he is himself purified by the revelation of God. Since acccording to the plain dictates of human nature and conscience, the soul of man shrinks from a death of doubt, and is thirsty after a'manifest certainty, it follows that the mighty and