Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 232
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 232 fashioned through His power hundreds of things like the sun, moon, air, and clouds for the transient comfort of this life; similarly, for the spiritual perfection and training and for the comfort of that life in which the misfortune and good fortune are eternal and everlasting, He should have sent the spiritual light that is His own pure and lumi- nous Word, for the good end of the world. Moreover, He should have Himself bestowed upon eager souls all of the knowledge they required, thus delivering them from all doubts and misgivings that can cause their destruction. But the Brahm u Sam a jists do not accept this perfect ra h m a niyyat. They imagine that although God provided every kind of help to fill the stomach of man and spared nothing to support it, He could not provide any help with the spiritual sustenance. In other words, God deliberately deprived man of spiritual sustenance, which is the true and real sustenance, and did not provide strong, powerful, and effective means for that purpose as He has created for physical suste- nance. Rather, He left man to the mercy of his own defective intellect without providing a perfect light from Himself to aid human intellect, which would have illumined the clouded vision of that intellect, thus enabling it to adopt the right path and to safeguard itself against the fatal dangers of errors and omissions. Similarly, they [Brahm u Sam a jists] do not have complete faith in the ra hi miyyat of God Almighty either. For, perfect ra hi miyyat is that God Almighty may fill to the brim the eager souls with clear and unveiled insights according to their natural zeal, wholehearted sincer- ity, and earnest efforts, and to open wide to them the heavenly gates corresponding to the opening of their hearts, and to give them water as their thirst for it increases until they are fully satiated with the sweet elixir of perfect certainty and may be completely saved from the death of doubts and suspicion. The Brahm u Sam a jists reject this truth. According to them, man is so unlucky that no matter how much he yearns for union with the True Beloved, even with a river [of tears] flowing from his eyes, and even if he reduces himself to dust in his effort to meet that Precious Friend, he