The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 205
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI creation, he begins to worship and love God. This love is strengthened when the believer makes spiritual progress. God loves those who worship and love Him. He guides and helps all those who strive for His sake. With the passage of time, many sorts of polytheistic ideas were accepted by followers of many religions. The. Creator was confused with His creation and people started worshipping elements of nature and human beings as their Lord and. God. . Finally when evolution of religion reached its perfection in universal religion of Islam, most perfect Divine book was revealed to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him). The Holy Quran teaches most perfect, Unity of God and gives more knowledge about attributes of God than any other book under the heavens. There are about one hundred attributes of Allah mentioned in the Holy Quran. It does not mean that Allah only has one hundred attributes and no more. Allah's attributes are unlimited. Allah says in the Holy Quran that all the perfect names (meaning attributes) belong to Allah. We have already quoted from the writings of the Promised Messiah, where he has explained the four principal attributes of Allah as related in Sura Fatiha, the first chapter of the Holy Quran. Hadhrat Ahmad, the Promised Messiah was blessed with profound knowledge of the. Holy Quran. At numerous places in his writings he has quoted and explained Allah's attributes. Only a prophet can have such knowledge about God and his attributes. Man has been created in the image of. God which means that he has been endowed with qualities and characteristics which resemble the attributes of Allah. But this resemblance is only superficial, metaphorical and limited. For example, God is Gracious and All-knowing. Man can also be gracious and knowledgeable. But can man's grace be equal to God's Grace which is unlimited and eternal? Man also has great knowledge but his knowledge is not even a drop in the ocean compared with God's knowledge. The Promised Messiah has explained all this. Nothing in nature or man has attributes equivalent to the attributes of God. All the attributes of God are unique, unlimited, eternal and beyond the 205