Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 146
146 can only be beneficial so long as there is some mystery concerning its subject matter, and it loses all merit when all matters concerning it are demonstrated like the formulas of applied sciences. Who would consider it meritorious for a man to believe in the sun and in the oceans? Only those people, who discover the hidden secrets of nature, deserve special rewards. Those who are physically dead cannot be restored to life in this world. The attribute, however, can be demonstrated in two ways, viz. , (1) by conferring spiritual life on those who are spiritually dead, or (2) by restoring those to life and health who are lying at the door of death, but have not actually passed beyond it, as Jesus as said concerning the maiden who is mentioned in Matthew, 'Give place, for the maid is not dead but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. ' 65 I need not enlarge upon the subject of restoring those who are spiritually dead to a new life of the spirit, for, all of us, who believe in the Promised Messiah as , are living instances of it. But I shall cite two instances of the second kind of the raising of the dead. Mubarak Ahmad, the youngest son of the Prom- ised Messiah as , once fell ill and his condition became very serious. He had a succession of fits till at last he was reduced to such a condition that those who were looking after him believed that he was dead. The Prom- ised Messiah as was at the time engaged in prayer in an adjoining room and somebody called out to him that he 65 Matthew , 9:24