Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 130
130 other similar object in the room. The shirt is still care- fully preserved by Mi yan Abdullah and the above statement is supported by him on oath. It must be remembered, however, that we do not believe that God has a physical form or that He signs His name, and uses pen and ink, or that the drops that fell on the shirt of the Promised Messiah as were actually the drops of any ink that God had used on the occasion. On the contrary, as I have indicated above, we believe that God has no form or likeness and that He is above assuming the human or any other form. We believe that whatever the Promised Messiah as saw was a Kashf and the form in which he saw God was a symbolical repre- sentation of the relationship in which he stood towards Him. The act of signing meant that God would cause him to achieve his objects and desires. The ink which actually fell on his clothes and the clothes of Miy an Abdullah, was not ink which had in fact fallen from God’s pen, for God uses neither ink nor pen, but was created by God under His attribute of creation to serve as a sign for the Promised Messiah as and for others, so that people might believe in His attribute of creation and understand that God creates out of nothing and that this attribute of His can, and does operate today as it oper- ated in the beginning of creation. I shall now cite an instance which would show that as God has the power to create, so also He has the power to prevent a thing from coming into existence, if and when He so directs it. It would then be clear that the attribute of creation is peculiar to God alone, and that no other being shares in it. Had not that been so it would