Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 141
Footnote Number Eleven — Ninth Objection 141 Ninth Objection: The belief that God sends down His word from heaven is utterly wrong, for the law of nature does not confirm it, nor do we ever hear a voice coming down from above. Revelation is the name given to the thoughts which arise in the hearts of wise people by the use of reflection and observation, and that is all. Answer: A truth which is self-evident and has been observed by countless men of understanding with their own eyes, and the proof of which can be found in every age by a seeker after truth, suffers no harm by the denial of a person who is bereft of spiritual insight, nor, the thinking or defective knowledge of a person whose heart is wrapped up in coverings fails to confirm it. Moreover, the truth cannot be consid- ered as being outside the law of nature because of the idle talk of such people. Consider, for instance, the case of a person who has never seen a magnet and is unaware of a magnet’s power of attraction. If he were to claim that: a magnet is only a piece of stone; that he has never witnessed any such power of attraction in any stone; and therefore, in his opinion, it is wrong to assert that a magnet has such a power—for it is contrary to the law of nature—then would his vain assertions cast any doubt on the well-established quality of a magnet. Certainly not. All that his assertion would prove is that he is absolutely stupid and ignorant and considers his own lack of knowledge to be a proof of the non-existence of a reality and does not accept the testimony of thousands of people who have experienced it. How can we possibly lay down as a general condition for the laws of nature that they must be personally tested by every individual. God has created the human species with great diversity in their external and internal faculties. For instance, some people possess very good eyesight, while others have weak eyesight and some are altogether blind. When those who are weak-sighted find that those with good sight have per- ceived a thing from afar—for instance, they have sighted the crescent— they do not deny it; rather, they think that their denial would only