A Gift for the Queen — Page 30
30 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD The Quran is filled with similar deep wisdom and surpasses the Gospels in teaching true piety. In particular, the lamp that enables the vision of the true and unchanging God is borne only by the Quran. If it had not come in the world then only God knows how much the number of people who worship other created beings would have sky-rocketed. Therefore, it is a matter of gratefulness that the Oneness of God which had disappeared from the earth has been established again. Then there is a second matter for gratefulness. God always provides firm arguments for His existence. Just as He manifested Himself to all the Prophets, and from times immemorial, illu- mined the world whenever He found it in the darkness, He has not deprived the present age from His Grace. Finding that the world had moved away from heavenly light, He determined to brighten the face of the earth with a new light of understanding , and to manifest fresh signs to illumine it. So He sent me. And, I am grateful to Him that He granted me a shelter under such a government that I am carrying natural and artificial beauty except that which is apparent thereof, and that they draw their head-coverings over their bosoms, and that they disclose not their beauty save to their husbands, or to their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands or their sons or the sons of their husbands or their brothers, or the sons of their brothers, or the sons of their sisters, or their women, or what their right hands possess, or such of male attendants as have no sexual appetite, or young children who have no knowledge of the hidden parts of women. And they strike not their feet so that what they hide of their orna- ments may become known. And turn ye to Allah all together, O believers, that you may succeed. ’ S u rah An-N u r , 24:31–32 [Publishers]