Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 161
Footnote Number Eleven 161 passed away, carrying with them an abundance of darkness in their beliefs. If a man completely sets aside his prejudice and stubbornness and becomes a sincere seeker after truth, and if he genuinely hungers and thirsts for the cognizance of God, and then personally reflects: What stores of divine cognizance do I need in order to be abso- lutely certain about God’s existence, His omnipotence and all of His perfect attributes; and to attain conclusive and indispen- sable knowledge of the Hereafter and the issue of reward and punishment therein; and can I have the everlasting good fortune through just that degree of knowledge alone that is acquired conjecturally through reason, or whether the Benevolent and Merciful God has opened for me any other way? Has He not appointed another way for the perfection of my cognizance; has He left me at the mercy of my own thoughts? Has He with- held from me even the favour of taking me Himself, through His Divine power, to where my weak feet cannot take me, and that He may cause me to see, through His profound sight, the minute and subtle things that I cannot see with my weak eyes. Is it possible that, after making my heart thirsty for a river, He should limit me to drink an insignificant drop filled with the stench of deficient cognition? Is this what is required from His generosity, favour, mercy, and power? Is this the extent of His omnipotence that He lets the cognizance of a humble servant end on a delusion which he has harboured about the existence of God with his own struggle and not take him on a journey, through His special divine powers, to the world of true recognition? When a seeker after truth asks himself these questions, he will undoubt- edly receive the unequivocal reply from his heart that the innumerable favours of God demand that He should Himself help His humble serv- ant, and should Himself guide the one who has lost his way and should