Favours of the Gracious God — Page 35
35 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS none save my Lord enabled me to understand. And He is the best of all teachers. He disclosed to me many mysteries underlying truths and rained down upon me knowledge of subtleties and divine cognisance. He bestowed upon me the blessings He gives to the sincere. Thus, when I attained the truth due to His munificence and was brought up on His divine milk, I found the expression of gratitude for such favours to lie in bearing hardship in service of the Faith and in upholding of the Shariah, and in demonstrating the light of the powerful Faith to people, and manifesting its sovereignty through legions of argument and safeguarding the efforts of the S ad u q and Am i n 1. This is a special divine grace; He is indeed the One Who showed me the pathways of the truthful. He taught me and taught me well! And He made me understand, and made me understand perfectly, and He saved me from the pathways of error. He revealed to me that the religion of Allah is indeed Islam and the true Messenger is Mustafa—[Muhammad] the Chosen One, peace and 1 These are two epithets given to the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as by the Meccans when he was a young man, before the advent of Islam. S ad u q means the one who is truthful; A m i n means the one who is trustworthy. [Publisher]