Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 222
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 222 is beset with tests and trials, and its comfort and pain are both tem- porary and defective. Moreover, whatever a person experiences in this world is under the veil of physical means, from which the countenance of Master of recompense is veiled and concealed. Thus, it cannot be the Judgment Day in the true, perfect, and unconcealed sense; rather, the true, perfect and unconcealed Day of Judgment, meaning, the Day of Recompense, will be the world which will follow after the end of this world, and that will be the venue of the great manifestation of divine glory and grace. Since this worldly life is not designed to be the venue of recompense, but rather a venue of trials, all hardship or ease, comfort or pain, and sorrow or joy that is experienced by people in this world is not a conclusive indication of God Almighty’s pleasure or wrath. For instance, someone’s wealth is not a conclusive indication that God Almighty is pleased with him, nor is someone’s poverty or priva- tion an indication that God Almighty is displeased with him. Rather, both of these are trials so that a wealthy one may be tried in respect of his wealth and a poor one may be tried in respect of his poverty. These are the four verities which are set out in detail in the Holy Quran. The study of the Holy Quran will show that the Quranic verses flow like a river in the exposition of these verities. Had I dealt with these verses here at length, many a juzw’ 1 of this book would have been expended by it. Considering that I shall, God-willing, soon set out all of these verses in detail at the time of presenting the arguments for [the excellences of ] the Holy Quran, I have contented myself in these pre- liminary discussions with just the concise yet comprehensive words of S u rah al-F a ti h ah. I would now like to point out that these four verities, which are manifestly proven and self-evident, are incomparable and sublime because it is proven with conclusive arguments that, at the time of the advent of Hadrat Kh a tamul-Anbiy a’ [the Seal of the Prophets], may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, belief in these four verities 1. A juzw’ comprises sixteen pages. [Publisher]