Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 80
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 80 not give us the news of His existence (as should be expected from a being who exists and is the Knower of the unseen and is All-Powerful). Rather, it was entirely an outcome of human endeavour. One day, out of the blue, man was tickled to appoint a god. He proceeded to deify water, trees, and stones; but eventually began to believe, without any rhyme or reason, that such objects cannot be God; for God must be some other being that we cannot see. Will not this belief create the doubt that if the ‘supposed’ God did really exist, He, like living persons, would surely have informed others of His existence some time or the other. In particular, when someone with such thinking considers that it is not proper to think of God as imperfect, deficient or mute, and just as it is necessary for Him to have the perfect attributes of seeing, hearing, knowing, etc. , so it is necessary for Him to have the ability to speak. He would wonder that if God has the power to speak, where is its proof. If He does not have this power, how can He be perfect. If He is not per- fect, then how does He deserve to be God. And if it is right to think of Him as a mute, then why not believe Him to be blind and deaf as well. Man can free himself from these doubts only by believing in revelation. Otherwise, as thousands of philosophers perished by stumbling into the pit of atheism, so will he. Now every fair-minded person should judge with impartiality as to whether or not this belief paves the way to the denial of the existence of God. Is there any guarantee of a person’s belief in God if in his opinion God is so weak that had there not been logicians, there would be no trace of His existence? These ignorant people do not realize that God sustains mankind with all—not just a few—of His attributes; how then is it possible that some of these perfect attributes should be of no use to mankind. Can there be a greater blasphemy than to believe that He is not the complete Rabbul-‘ A lam i n [Lord of all the worlds], but only a half or a third.