Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 89
Footnote Number Eleven 89 Time after time, all of us indulge in conjectures with regard to an unknown fact, thinking that it could be this or that, but when the details are revealed, it turns out to be something altogether different. These daily experiences have taught man the lesson that it is the height of foolishness to rest assured with mere conjectures. In short, as long as conjectural speculations are not supported by the facts of the matter, the entire display put on by reason is a mirage and nothing more, the ultimate outcome of which is atheism. So if you desire to be an atheist, do as you please; otherwise, the only way you can be delivered from the fierce flood of doubts—which has swept thousands of intellectuals far superior than you into the depth of deg- radation with a single surge—is to take a firm hold of the strong han- dle of true revelation. However, it will never happen that, by advanc- ing your ideas on reason alone, you will find God sitting somewhere. Rather, the only result of the progression of your thoughts will be that you will ultimately find God without a visible sign and without the perceptible characteristics of living beings, and after becoming helpless and frustrated in your quest for Him, you will end up joining hands with your atheist brothers. Do not be deceived by thinking that if the consequence of follow- ing mere reason is atheism, then why do the Brahm u Sam a jists still have some faith in the existence of God and why do they not become His deniers en masse? There are two reasons for this. The first is that they have not yet achieved the full progression of their ideas, and they are holding on to the belief in that Being who is the internal product of their hypothetical reasoning. They have not yet stepped forward to search for the actual existence of that hypothetical Being somewhere externally. But bear in mind that as soon as they progress in their ideas, the first effect of their progression will be a rankling within their minds as to where and in which direction that Being is, whom they believe to be the Self-Subsisting, All-Sustaining, and Omnipresent, and that if He really does have a physical existence externally, then why is He not found and why does He not reveal His Being to those who are