Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 90
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 90 achieve the rank of Allah’s Messengers. This rank is bestowed by the Eternal Distributor upon those whose holy souls are completely pure of darkening veils, and are entirely free from physical coverings, and whose transcendent holiness is beyond imagination. Such perfect and impeccable souls are the means of guidance for all mankind—just as the bounty of life is conveyed to all the limbs by the heart, the All-Wise has appointed the bounty of guidance through them. For, they alone are bestowed the perfect relationship that ought to subsist between the Source of Grace and its recipient. It is absolutely impossible that God Almighty, who is absolutely Unique and Transcendent, should bestow the grace of His holy revela- tion upon people, the greater part of whose nature is dark and opaque, and is also very narrow and constricted, and whose mean natures are steeped in, and polluted by, base impurities. Unless we are willing to deceive ourselves, we would certainly have to concede that to establish a perfect relationship with the Eternal Source, and to enjoy converse with His Great Holiness, one requires a special ability and brightness, which is appropriate to this great rank and dignity. It is certainly not the case that every person who is in a state of loss, lacks merit, is tainted, and is covered up in manifold dark coverings, should—notwithstanding his low nature and lack of resolve—achieve this great rank. No one should be deceived by the fact that from among the People of the Book, the Christians believe that the Prophets—who are the recipients of revelation from Allah— do not possess holiness, tran- scendence, innocence and perfect love for Allah. The Christians [believe so because they] have lost the true principles and have sacrificed all ver- ities, so that somehow Hadrat Mas ih [i. e. , Jesus the Messiah] might be deified and the doctrine of Atonement might find footing. As the innocence and holiness of Prophets demolishes the edifice that the Christians are erecting, they have been compelled to resort to one falsehood in order to support another. Having lost one eye, they have had to gouge out the other. Thus, they loved falsehood and