An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 13
13 only when reason is joined by a companion which, confirming its conjecture, converts it into fact, that is today, regarding a matter concerning which reason says it ‘should be’ that companion informs that in fact it ‘is’. Reason only establishes the need of a thing; it cannot establish its existence, and these are two distinct and separate matters. Thus reason needs a companion which should supplement the defective ‘should be’ of reason with the affirmative ‘is’ and which should give information of facts as they truly exist. So, God Who is most Compassionate and Generous Desires to lead man to the stage of utmost certainty. God has fulfilled this need and has appointed several companions for reason and has thereby opened the way of perfect certainty to it, so that the soul of man, whose total good fortune and salvation depends upon perfect certainty, should not be deprived of its desired good fortune. ( Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah , Part 2, pp. 89-90 footnote 4, R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 1, pp. 78-79 footnote 4) It is not correct to say that language is the invention of man. Research has established that the inventor and the creator of human languages is God Almighty, Who created man out of His perfect power and Bestowed upon him a tongue that he may be able to speak. Had language been the invention of man, it would not have been necessary to teach a baby to talk. It would have invented its own speech as it grew in maturity But it is patent that if a child is not taught speech, it would not be able to speak. Whether it is nurtured in a Greek forest or in the British Isles or at the equator, he has to be instructed in the art of speaking, and in the absence of such instruction he would not be able to speak. ( Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah , Part II, pp. 308-315, R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 1, pp. 358-368)