Unity of God

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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17 and the Teachings of Muhammad s as Based on the above postulations, these academics claim that God did not declare His own existence. Instead, human beings gradually discovered Him on their own. This is the stance of experts who believe in the existence of God. Though God was present, His existence was unknown. They argue that just as humans found kerosene through discovery and it did not emerge on its own, so too did humans discover God through inquiry, and He did not disclose Himself. Conversely, atheists assert that there is no God and that this concept was invented by humans. Atheists do not believe in the phenomenon of divine revelation either. From their perspective too, we can ascertain that the Holy Prophet s as spurred an extraordinary change regarding Tauheed. According to the theory of evolution, it is accepted that life made slow and gradual progress, yet, the teaching of Tauheed reached its perfection during the time of Prophet Muhammad s as. After his elucidation of the , no new interpretation emerged, during his time or since. Thus, it must be acknowledged that the evolution of human consciousness reached its perfection in the personage of the Holy Prophet s as , the attainment of which is the supreme objective for humanity. With his advent, the concept of Divine Unity was perfected. He presented