Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 83
Footnote Number Eleven 83 of shock, grief, and anxiety overwhelm the helpless man and his heart is totally beyond his control. In this situation, if such a person—who, in his opinion, is exceedingly holy, saintly, and venerable—admonishes him to be patient because there are great rewards with God for those who are patient and that this world is not a place of eternal life—even though he already knew it—hearing this from his mouth impacts him with such a wonderful effect that it prevents him from falling. In short, one’s own self-invented ideas cannot affect one’s heart at all times and on all occasions. Rather, many a time reason is so com- pletely subdued by carnal passions or spiritual misfortunes that man loses the abilities of thinking and understanding, and on such an occa- sion he finds himself in a situation where the words of advice, warning, or satisfaction and comfort should issue forth from someone else. Thus, by looking at all of these matters, a wise person can reach the conclusion that God has cast human nature in this particular mould; and this very mould indicates that it was not the will of the All-Wise to leave man, feeble as he is, to the mercy of his own imagination and con- jecture. Rather, the kind of counsellors and advisors who can grant him satisfaction, comfort, suppression of passions, and removal of spiritual restlessness; He has created all of those advisors for him, and has pro- vided him with the Word that can cure his illnesses and maladies. No different methodology is needed to prove the need for revelation, as God’s own law of nature proves it. Is it not true that millions of people in the world who are mired in misery, sin, or heedlessness are constantly influenced by other counsellors and advisers, and that one’s own knowledge and thinking are certainly not effective in every case? Moreover, the fact is that the speaker’s words provide satisfaction and comfort to the same degree that the speaker’s status and eminence are established in the eyes of the listener. Only the promise of such a person—who, in the eyes of the listener, is truthful in his promises and is also capable of fulfilling them—grants comfort to the mind. In this scenario, who can doubt the obvious fact that, concerning matters of the life to come and matters