Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 165
Footnote Number Eleven 165 offering the argument that the Word of God is not necessary. However, it will be evident to every wise person upon due reflection that this is a mere delusion that has arisen in the mind of the Pundit from his misunderstanding a truth, which is that he regards the following two matters as a combination of two contradictions—namely, that the word of God should be revealed to a person who is ignorant of the existence of God and of His attributes, and on the other hand, the All- Powerful God should Himself convey the information of His existence through His Holy Word. These two matters, in the view of the Pundit, are opposites of each other and cannot coexist. As a matter of fact, their being true at the same time, according to the wise, does not constitute a coexistence of opposites. Given that a man can inform another man of his existence through his word, why then should it be impossible for God Almighty to do the same? Does the Pundit believe that God does not have the power to inform of His existence through His per- fect and powerful word that comprises divine manifestations? If the Pundit harbours the doubt that all Prophets who appeared undoubt- edly believed in God before the divine word was revealed—and this proves that they attained this belief from their own nature and reason—it should be clear that this doubt arises merely from the lack of reflection, because it is absolutely impossible that such belief can be attained by either reason or nature alone. The Prophets were not born in isolation in a jungle to justify the conclusion that they had not heard the name of God before receiving revelation, even through the chain of verbal reports—the foundation of which had been laid down by divine revelation—and therefore, they believed in the existence of God only on the basis of their own nature and reason. On the contrary, it stands clearly proven that the existence of God was well-publicized in the world through the divine word that was revealed in the beginning to Hadrat A dam [Adam]. Then, all of the Prophets who were raised from time to time for the reformation of the world after Hadrat A dam were made aware of the existence of God, prior to receiving revelation, by the same well-publicized verbal reports founded by the scripture