Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 148
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 148 glory is vouchsafed only to those honourable ones who are included in ummat-e-Mu h ammadiyyah and are the servants of the Holy Prophet. The followers of all other religions are completely deprived of this per- fect light which carries the good news of the nearness to God and of acceptance by Him and of His pleasure. Therefore, this holy revelation not only proves its own existence, but also proves that the Muslims alone are the people who are accept- able to God and who base themselves on the true faith; and that all other people worship falsehood are misguided and are in danger of incurring the wrath of God. Ignorant people, on hearing this from me, will say all sorts of things and will shake their heads in denial or will ridicule me like the foolish and the mischievous. They should know, however, that denial and ridicule are not the ways of those who are noble-minded and are seekers after truth, but are the ways of those who are wicked by nature, are mischief-makers, and who have nothing to do with God or rectitude. There are thousands of things in the world which possess qual- ities that cannot be understood by reason and which man can only understand by experience. Therefore, it is usually the way of all wise people that when some quality of a certain thing is manifested by repeated experiments they no longer doubt its existence. He who persists in denial after repeated experiments is an absolute fool. For instance, turbud 1 is cathartic, and a magnet has the power of attrac- tion, though no reason can be established as to why they possess these qualities. However, since repeated experiments reveal that they defi- nitely have these qualities, every wise person has to admit on the basis of empirical evidence—even if no rational argument has been estab- lished—that certainly, turbud is cathartic and a magnet has the power to attract. If anyone should deny this on the premise that he cannot 1. A tropical plant known by the genus species operculina turpethum. [Publisher]