Life of Ahmad — Page 696
ADDRESSES RULERS AND THE RULED as 696 purpose of God, which also determines the order of nature. It is therefore nothing irrational or capricious. It is not for man to say whether God should or should not interfere in the affairs of men or in the laws of nature. All that one can say is that reason requires that a Being who creates, governs and controls the universe should be able to interfere whenever there arises a genuine occasion demanding His interference; and of this He alone is the judge. The fact that He does sometimes actually interfere or that He appears to do so is incontestably borne out by history. Truthful witnesses have testified to it throughout the ages and human observation has recorded it throughout the world. The present is, however, a most sceptical world and some people go to the extreme of asserting that writings in which miracles figure are not 'historical in the modern and scientific sense of the word'. Ahmad as appeared in such an age and he invited, openly and repeatedly, men of all descriptions to test the truth of his mission through heavenly signs and miracles under the supervision and control of a scientific and modern Government like that of the British; but it is a matter of extreme regret and disappointment that the authorities concerned could not see their way to becoming official witnesses of the extraordinary result of an almost unprecedented spiritual experiment in human history. Unbelievers have really not the courage of the convictions which they profess and