The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 30
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 30 through this art that only Hinduism is the true faith and the religions of all other Prophets are false, then would all those religions become false! It is a pity that these people, having been called Muslims, have such mean ideas; they do not realize that Visions as well as dreams of everyone are not of the same grade. That perfect Vision, which the Holy Quran calls ‘the manifestation of the unseen’ [ izhar alal-ghayb ], and which comprehends all types of knowledge, as a circle encompasses all that is within it, is not granted to everyone: it is granted only to the Chosen Ones. The visions and dreams of the inferior people are themselves inferior and they ultimately prove to be the cause of shame for them. The reality of ‘the manifesta - tion of the unseen’ can be understood by the example of the one who goes to the roof of a high-rise building and looks at all things surrounding the building, down be - low—then, undoubtedly, everything becomes visible to him. However, the person who desires to see such things from a low-rise building, so many things remain invis - ible to him. And the practice of God with regard to the Chosen Ones is that He extends their vision upwards to the height of a high-rise building, as it were, then they can easily see everything and inform others about their end. However, the person living on a low land, cannot tell about the end of a people. It is for this reason that