Mirror of Charm and Beauty

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad

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Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 22

6. The truth is that the real source of the beauty of everything in this world is only. God. It is He that invests all beautiful things with the appeal which belongs to them; and it is He, alone, that bestows stateliness and grandeur on them. While in one you find the strong, dazzling light, like that of the sun, which the eye cannot bear to look at, such is the majesty and awe it inspires in the heart of man, in the other you find a coolness and peace, as one feels when looking at the moon which works like magic; and the wisdom of. God has demanded that in the case of His. Apostles and Prophets He should institute phases of Jalal and Jamal. Although Moses and. Jesus were both Prophets in one and the same chain, obeying and operating the same law, the specific conditions of the times of each necessitated that, along with the new law given to Moses, he should be invested with Jalal, great majesty and awe, while Jesus came to serve the same law in a Jamali manner and spirit. In the New Testament, Jesus himself plainly conceded his subordinate position in this respect, when he said: "Think not that I am 22