Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 227
Sub-Footnote Number One 227 A ryah, this prophecy was also related to many other people who are still alive and cannot deny its fulfilment. Since this prophecy consists of a long story, it is not necessary to give its details here. However, it should be understood that revelation is a true and cer- tain fact and it flows from the pure and blessed fountain of the religion of Islam. God, who always takes the truthful as His friends, never opens this door of enlightenment to others and does not bestow His special bounty upon them. And why should He. Can one who has shut all the doors of his house and has covered his eyes receive the same light as the one whose doors are open and whose vision remains unhindered. Can the seeing and the blind be alike. Can darkness defeat light. Can a leper, whose body is rotting and falling apart limb by limb, be comparable to a community of people whom God has granted excellent health and beauty. I am ever ready to prove to any true seeker that the spiritual, real, and true blessings, which are to be found among the followers of Hadrat Khairur-Rusul [the Best of the Messengers], are totally absent in other faiths. When we ponder over the dark and bleak state of the Christians, A ryas, and [followers of ] other religions, we find their pundits, yogis, rabbis, priests, and missionaries to be completely deprived and devoid of heavenly light. On the other hand, we witness an unceasing river of spiritual blessings and heavenly light flowing among the followers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and watch divine light descending like rain. How then can we deny something that we observe with our own eyes, that has been ingrained in our very fabric and that is testified to by every drop of blood in our body. Should we just turn the other way and call reality a fantasy, or treat something obvious and visible as obscure and concealed. I tell you in all honesty, and nothing can stop me from telling the truth, that if the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had not come, and if the Holy Quran—whose spiritual effects have been witnessed by our elders and divines in the past, and are being witnessed by us to this day—had not descended, it would have been very