Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 262
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 262 steadfastness and good intention, it will become manifestly obvious to you that the spiritual attributes that have been mentioned here are truly found in S u rah al-F a ti h ah and the Holy Quran. How blessed, then, is the one who, cleansing his heart of bigotry and rancour and being ready to accept Islam, should pay attention in sincerity and good faith for achieving this purpose, and how unfortunate is the one who pays no attention, even after hearing such an open declaration and deliberately becomes the object of the curse and wrath of God Almighty. Death is near and the game of life is almost over. Unless you quickly direct your attention to my words with the fear of God, and take steps with sincerity and good intention to find comfort and satisfaction in this matter, I fear that your end may be no different from that of Pundit Dayanand, the leader of A ryas. For, quite some time before his death, my humble self had invited him towards the right path and reminded him of the humiliation of the Hereafter. I also made clear to him the utter falsity of his religion and doctrines through conclu- sive arguments, and, with utmost courtesy, I proved to him through the most solid and perfect arguments that, after atheism, there is no faith worse than the A ryah Sam a j in the entire world. For, these people show disrespect to God Almighty to an extreme degree by not believ- ing Him to be the Creator and Lord of all the worlds, so much so, that they consider the universe—even every particle of the universe—to be His associate in the attributes of eternal and true existence. And if you ask them whether their Parmeshwar can create any soul, or bring any physical particle into existence, or similarly fashion another earth and heaven, or grant everlasting salvation to his true lover and save him from being reincarnated repeatedly as a dog or a cat, or whether he can accept the repentance of his devout servant, their answer to all these questions is ‘never’. That is, he does not have the power to create even a single particle on his own, nor does he possess the attribute of ra hi mi- yyat, so that he may grant eternal salvation to an avatar, rishi, or muni, or even to one upon whom the Vedas were revealed, so that he is not expelled from the house of deliverance on account of his status, nor can