Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 106
106 By the grace of God the writer of this paper has had personal experience of revelation and can confi- dently state on the basis of his own experience that revelation is conveyed in words and is not a mere idea of the mind. It must, however, be remembered that there is nothing in the Holy Quran to warrant the belief that every dream or vision ( Kashf ) or revelation is from God. Islam concedes that dreams and revelations may be of different kinds. For instance the Holy Quran says: 'I call to witness the stemless plant when it falleth. ' That is to say, a plant which has no stem falls to the ground when it grows up and in the same way, a false claimant, whether an impostor or one self-deceived, never tri- umphs. As such a man’s teachings are not based on essential spiritual truths they contain in themselves the seed of their own destruction. Therefore, when his following begins to increase, signs of decline simulta- neously begin to appear, and before such a man is universally accepted, before his movement firmly establishes itself as an independent religion (that is to say, before it assumes such proportions as to justify its being reckoned among the great religions of the world) and before such period of time has elapsed as would justify the claim that his system has survived the test of time, his movement begins to decay and eventually the