Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 149
149 their lack of those attributes is pointed out they can retort, saying, that God’s attributes cannot be proved. If, however, the ownership and mastership of God could be demonstrated such persons would never dare blaspheme in this manner and attempt to deceive mankind. For in that case, those servants of God who are, as it were, clothed in the mantle of His grace could be put forward as manifesting this attribute of God, and such claimants of God-head could be called upon to show signs greater than those shown by the former, for they are merely the servants of God while the latter claim to be God Him- self. This is the only manner in which such persons can be completely refuted. The Promised Messiah as , having attained to union with God, manifested this attribute of ownership and mastership in the same manner in which he manifested the other attributes of God, and demon- strated thereby that Islam alone can lead man to God. One such instance is that when, as had been fore- told by the Promised Messiah as , plague broke out in epidemic form in India, he saw in a Kashf that a wild and savage animal (which he understood to be the personification of plague), whose head resembled that of an elephant, had spread consternation among man- kind by the terrible loss of life he had caused by his attacks, and that, after his charges in every direction, he came and settled himself down submissively and obedi- ently before the Promised Messiah as. He also received a verbal revelation when God put the following words in the mouth of the Promised Messiah as , 'Fire is our ser- vant, nay the servant of our servants,' that is to say, the plague was not only his servant but also the servant of