Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 22
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 22 and sound, affirms that it is necessary that God is One and without asso- ciate in His being, attributes and works, and that it is impossible that any of His creatures should be partners with Him in any of His creations, words or actions. The proof is as follows: If such a partnership were per- missible with respect to any of His creations, words 1 or actions, then it would be permissible in all His attributes and actions. And if it were permissible with respect to all [of His] attributes and actions, then it would also be permissible that another god should come into existence, because that which possesses all attributes of God would be God and that which possesses some of the attributes of the Divine would still be a partner of the Most Exalted Maker with respect to those attributes. However, to be a partner of the Maker is, according to reason, obviously impossible. Hence, this argument proves that it is necessary for God to be One without associate in all His attributes, words, and actions, and for His being to be free from all those ignoble qualities which tend to create the possibility of a partnership with Him. The second proof for this claim comes from perfect inductive rea- soning, and it stands substantiated when we reflect over all the things that have been created by Allah. When we minutely observe each and every part of the universe, which has come into existence through the perfect Omnipotence of God and observe its every detail—from the loftiest to the smallest and even the most insignificant like a housefly, mosquito, spider, etc. —we find that none of them are such as would be in man’s power to create. Rather, as we continue to reflect upon their structure and design, we find in them wonderful workings of the hand of providence which serve as irrefutable proof and clear arguments for the existence of the Creator of the universe. 1. Please see Footnote Number Eleven on pages 37–193. In the original Urdu edition of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , the Promised Messiah as presented this footnote along with the main text. For the ease of English readers, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V aba decided that it should be presented as its own section after the main text. [Publisher]