Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 129
129 wise Being who created the soul of man with this thirst, must have beforehand made provision for it to quench that thirst and satisfy itself with certainty, But what are the means provided to acquire this certainty? Let me declare it openly in answer to this question that certainty is produced in obedience to the law which has prevailed since the commencement of the world, viz. , by the love of God supported by His supernatural deeds. Do not deceive yourselves by thinking that the Word of God revealed in **' '. tfhe past is sufficient to produce conviction and that there is no need of a fresh revelation. The Arya Samajists are involved in the same fatal doubt. . They think that the Word of God. was revealed in the Yedas and that there is no need of any new reve- lation subsequent to the Yedic revelation. . But they are deceived as. are also the Christians who think. that the Bible contains all the religious teachings and that they have no need of the Quran. The answer to these frivolous assertions is that the object with which the Word of God comes to men is the bringing about of certainty. Almighty God reveals His word to men that they may , believe in His existence and attributes and know the ways of His liking from the ways* which He hates, so that with the blessing of certainty their faith in God may be perfect and they may avoid every path of wickedness and transgression and walk in the paths of righteousness. But when the days are over during which a prophet of God lives upon earth, and the Word of God revealed to him gradually loses its force and attraction and be- comes a story of the past, it fails to fulfil the object with which it was revealed, and the hearts of men are at last devoid of the certainty which it brought about at first. Look at the Jews who have the books of the prophets in their hands and deceit in their hearts. How many are there among the Christians who being smitten on the right cheek, turn the other, and to him who takes