Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 104
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 104 those will be left out whom God knows well that they will not accept the true path of Islam. And whether they are warned or not, they will not believe, nor will they arrive at the perfect stage of righteousness and enlightenment. Thus, in these verses, God Almighty has made it clear that only those will benefit from Quranic guidance who are righteous and whose true nature is not overwhelmed by any darkness of their ego. This guid- ance will surely reach them. However, those who are not righteous do not benefit from the guidance of the Quran, nor is it necessary that guidance should reach them whether they are willing or unwilling. In short, the reply [to the above objection] is that there are two kinds of people in this world: those who are righteous, seekers after truth, and who accept the guidance; and those who are mischief-mak- ers by nature, for whom it makes no difference whether they are admonished or not. And as I have just stated, the Holy Quran places in the second category all those to whom its guidance did not reach until the time of their death or those to whom it will not reach in the future. Thus, it is foolish to assert, contrary to the Holy Quran, that perhaps those people to whom Quranic guidance has not reached ‘might belong’ to the first category, that is, a group of the rightly-guided peo- ple. Because a proof qualified by ‘might be’ is not a conclusive proof. However, when the Holy Quran informs us about something, it is fur- nished as a conclusive proof, because it has established with conclusive arguments that it is of divine origin and is the true informant. Therefore, anyone who does not regard this [Quranic] informa- tion as being a conclusive proof, the onus is upon him to refute these [Quranic] arguments that prove its own truthfulness, some of which I have also given in this book. As long as he is incapable and helpless to do so, it is only fair and just that he should acknowledge as right and true whatever is disclosed in a book, the truthfulness of which is intrin- sically established. For, if a book, whose truthfulness is an established fact, gives news of the actual existence of something that is possible, this amounts to a clear testimony of its existence. It is obvious that to