Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 112
112 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad advances on the basis of a misunderstanding, they become trapped in a vortex of difficulty. As I have just mentioned, the interactions of God Almighty with human beings are so profound and multifaceted that no human power can ar- ticulate them. For if it was within the power of man to express, divine providence and the perfect attributes of Allah Almighty would not be expounded by Him in the Quran. Our non-existence is the very proof of God's existence. It is certainly true that when man is helpless in every respect, he is essentially a non-entity. Certain peo- ple were unable to grasp this subtle and profound secret and as a result began to proclaim: خَلَقَ الْأَشْيَاءَ هُوَ عَيْنٌ God created things and He is those things. From among the Wujudis and Shuhudis, the former are those who declare and believe that 'God created things and He is those things. ' The latter group, how- ever, believe in the annihilation of perception (fana-un-nadhari) and assert that man can become so engrossed in love that he can become annihilated in God (fana fillah); whereafter such people may be described as embodiments of the following verse: من تو شدم تو من شدی من تن شدم تو جاں شدی تا کس نگوید بعد ازیں من دیگرم تو دیگری I have become you, and you me, I the body, you the soul; So that no one can say hereafter, that you are someone, and me someone else. All of this aside, even mystics are compelled to accept the presence of God's inde- pendent, overarching power and control, whether they are Wujudis or Shuhudis. Various sages and masters from among them such as Bayazid Bastamith, Shiblith, Dhun-Nunth and Muhy-ud-Din Ibni Arabith have generally expressed this view in their discourses, either explicitly or implicitly. However, I would like to state clearly that we are not at liberty to mock them or look down upon them. On the contrary, they were wise and intelligent people. The fact of the matter is that this subject is a subtle and profound secret that relates to understanding the essence of the Divine, and so they were unable to grasp the nature of this relationship—that is all, nothing else.