Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 73
Footnote Number Eleven 73 extent was never free from the vein of atheism, nor is it free today. Just consider these Brahm u people. Do they ever regard God as possessing perfect attributes? Do they admit that God is not mute, but truly pos- sesses the attribute of speech as should be possessed by a being who is alive and well? Do they truly regard Him as the Absolute Planner and Provider? Do they ever believe that God truly is Self-Subsisting and All-Sustaining and that He can convey His words to sincere hearts? On the contrary, they consider His existence to be fictitious, lifeless, and concocted by human reason merely out of its own imagination. Unlike living beings, no voice is ever heard from Him, as if He were not God, but a mere idol lying in a corner. I am astonished by how these people remain content with such immature and flimsy ideas, and what fruits they hope to reap from their self-fabricated assumptions. Why do they not search, like true seekers, for that God who is Omnipotent, Powerful, and Ever-Living, who has the power to affirm His own existence, and who can revive the dead in an instant by the call اِنِّی ْ اَنَا ہللا [‘Verily, I am Allah’]? When they themselves know that the light of reason is smoky, then why do they not aspire for the perfect light? How foolish they are that while acknowledging their illness, they care not for its remedy! Alas, why do their eyes not open so that they see the truth of the matter? Why does the veil not lift from their ears so that they hear the divine call? Why are their hearts so twisted and their understanding so perverted that they have begun to level the very objection against the followers of true revelation that, in reality, applies to themselves? Have I not yet proven to them that they are utterly deficient in divine cognition and are in a perilous condition? Have I not yet demonstrated to them that com- plete and perfect divine cognition can be attained only through the Noble Quran and nothing else? And when it has been proven in every way that they are liars and in the wrong, then what kind of honesty and integrity is this, that while being oblivious to the mourning within their own homes, they declare the followers of Islam to be ill and level wicked and mischievous allegations—all of which certainly indicates