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BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 96 word, it should be of such purity as springs forth from unadulterated truth and the special knowledge of God. Given that the need for reve- lation is a manifest truth, how can we believe that they—who continue to reject revelation and treat the Holy Book of God as an invention of man—have any fear of God and how can we expect their mouths to utter any word of justice? My admonition can be of no avail to those who refuse to forsake falsehood under any circumstances, and their perusal of this book will be equally in vain. What a pity that hundreds of men are called wise, yet they are enslaved by ignorance. They have eyes, yet they do not see; they have ears, yet they hear not; and they have hearts, yet they perceive not. There is no dearth of such people among Brahm u Sam a jists who, even when they demonstrate their ‘wisdom’, they do so by tearing off the eternal attributes of God from Him, and call Him dumb and deficient in beneficence and power. When this is the state of their intellectu- als, would not the less intelligent among them deny the attributes of God altogether by following their footsteps? For, if God does not have the power to speak, then how can one comprehend that He has the power to see, hear, and know? If He does not possess the attribute of speaking, what proof is there that He possesses other attributes? And if He has the attribute of speaking, but no creature derives any benefit from it, does it not follow that the tree of Mercy fails to shelter His creatures with the shadow of all of its branches—which are the perfect attributes—as if some of its branches are dead, with no one deriving any benefit from them? Such are the beliefs in which the Brahm u Sam a jists happily indulge, yet despite their wretched and false beliefs, they maintain that the Holy Quran, which is the fountainhead of all verities, is—God for- bid—not the Word of God, but written out of selfish motives. And because wicked thoughts deprive one of good morals, their ill-thinking towards the Holy Quran has plunged them into all kinds of depravities and they deem it permissible to indulge in every type and manner of contempt. They regard the healthy as ill, and remain oblivious to the