The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 36
36. Essence of Islam-V simpleton have the sense or the time to go about making investigations? Do you not see that even in this very time and age frauds and cheats are playing havoc with the world? While one claims to be an alchemist and boasts of turning things into gold, another buries stones under the ground himself and then brings out a female deity in front of the Hindus, and yet another goes to the extent of mixing Jamāl Gota with ink and then uses this ink to write out amulet for a simpleton so that the resulting loose motions may be attributed to the amulet. There are thousands of similar frauds and tricks being practised in this very day and age. . And some deceptions are so subtle that even some wise people are taken in by them. In this age, subtle aspects of natural sciences, and physiological compositions, and amazing properties of certain forces are daily coming to light through new experiments. These new discoveries can be exploited by the pseudo miracle-workers to show novel tricks. The above discourse proves that miracles which resemble such tricks, even if they are true, are still susceptible to doubt, and there are great difficulties in establishing their truth. [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, vol. 1, pp. 511-557]. The miracle of a saint is in fact the miracle of the. Prophet whom he follows. This is something quite obvious and self-evident. When a manifestation depends upon complete submission to a Prophet or to a. Book, and it cannot happen in any other way, it becomes obvious that though the manifestation may