Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 517
17 May 1908 517 beyond, the door of their prophethood is also specific to their own house alone. However, the Holy Quran states: 1 ْنِا ْنِّم ٍةَّمُا اَّلِا اَلَخ اَهْيِف ٌرْيِذَن ْنِا ْنِّم ٍةَّمُا اَّلِا اَلَخ اَهْيِف ٌرْيِذَن Behold! What a pious and persuasive statement this is and what a profoundly true principle this is! Nevertheless, these people here think that the dominion of God is restricted exclusively to their own house. The same is the case of the Aryas. They, too, believe this very notion that it is only the Vedas that are revealed every time, and there are only four men exclusively selected for this task, and the Sanskrit language has been chosen by God forever—it is absolutely impossible that this Divine bounty of inspiration and revelation can be received by any other person or any other language. According to their belief, Divine revelation has been left in the past and now a seal has been placed on it forever. But these people do not realize that this would create difficulties in proving even the very existence of God. How can man be satis- fied just with hearing about it from others and how can perfect conviction and true cognizance [of God] be achieved by hearing things narrated by others? As is said: �دہ ي �دہ ےک وبد امدنن د� ي � ن � ش � [‘Hearsay is nothing like seeing the real thing’]. The Need for Wahi and Ilham How can man’s thirst for knowing God—that is so inseparable to man—be quenched unless God Himself says ُ أَنَا الْمَوْجُوْد [‘I am 1. There is no people to whom a Warner has not been sent ( S u rah F at ir, 35:25). [Publisher]