Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 148
148 death at his intercession. The boy began to improve from that very moment and was restored to health within a few days. He is still alive and is reading for the Bar in England. His father and most of those who had witnessed this miracle are also alive and can testify that they saw the working of this attribute of God at the hands of the Promised Messiah as with their own eyes. Another well-known attribute of God is that He is the owner or master of the universe. All religions are agreed that He is the owner and master of every atom in the universe but we are not told how that is so. Unless clear proofs are forthcoming in support of this statement it is impossible for us to believe in this attribute, for we daily see signs of other people’s ownership over their property, but we can perceive no sign from which we can conclude that God is the owner and master of the universe. Indeed it may be said that God has framed the laws of nature and that the whole universe is governed and regulated by these laws. But even so, if a man claims to have attained to union with God, he should be able to manifest this attribute, so that it should be a proof of his relationship with God, and men should be able to believe that God is the owner and master of the universe. In the absence of such manifestation, anybody may claim that he is the master and owner of the uni- verse and if such a one were asked why he should then be subject to the laws of nature it would be open to him to reply that he had himself made it an eternal law that this should be so. There have been many instances in which men have claimed to be God, knowing that there is no living proof of the attributes of God and that if