The Honour of Prophets — Page 12
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 12 according to the aforementioned definition, children who are immature and those of unsound mind who are born as such, are also sinless, for they are incapable of wilful disobedience. Furthermore, they are not liable for punishment in the estimation of God Almighty on account of any action they may commit. Without doubt, they are entitled to be deemed sinless, but are they also entitled to be intercessors for mankind and to be hailed as saviours? This clearly demonstrates that there is no real relationship between being a saviour and being sinless. Reason cannot discern that sinlessness has any real connection with intercession, but it can surely understand that the intercessor must possess the afore mentioned two fold relationship. Reason unhesitatingly dictates that if a person possesses these two qualities: a strong relationship with God on the one hand and a rela tionship of love and sympathy with His creation on the other, then such a person will indeed intercede whole heartedly for those people who have not deliberately broken their relationship with him, and his intercession will be accepted. For if the nature of an individual is imbued with these two relationships, the natural conse quence must be that such a person draws in divine grace due to his perfect love of Allah and then transmits that grace to mankind due to his perfect love for them. This