Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 90
90 I give you the glad tidings that Islam, or in other words, Ahmadiyyat claims to teach the way how the door may be caused to open; nay, it claims that through it the door has already been opened to many who have in this very life entered through it and seen the face and majesty of God, and that, if you so desire, it can, God willing, do the same for you. Before proceeding to explain the means by which Ahmadiyyat leads man to God, it is necessary to state what is meant by meeting or seeing God. It must be remembered that God is not a material object whom man can see with his physical eyes. He can only be seen with the eyes of the soul. This does not mean, however, that it is a mere trick of the fancy. This spiritual vision of God is as real and as irrefutable as our physical vision by which we perceive physical objects like the sun and the moon, so that no doubt is left in our minds as to their existence. If ten million men were to assert that there is no such thing as the sun, we would believe that these ten million men had gone mad. No doubt would arise in our minds that we had not seen the sun, for we have seen it in a manner which can leave no possible doubt behind it. There is this difference be- tween fancy and fact, that the former is generally the result of the working of one sense only, while knowl- edge is the result of the operation of more senses than one. For instance, when a man imagines that a certain person is standing before him, while in reality there is no such person standing there, he can find out his mistake if he extends his hand to touch him, for his hand will meet nothing but empty space. But if a man is