Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 322
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 322 even consider souls and bodies as created, and they remain unaware of the subtle mystery that true life, true existence, and true self-subsistence belong only to God. Man can learn this deep understanding only from this verse in which God states that, in reality, life and eternal existence belong only to Allah, who combines all perfect attributes in Himself. Except Him, nothing else enjoys true existence and true self-subsist- ence. This very fact has been presented as an argument for the need of a Creator of the universe and it is affirmed 1 ٗهَل اَم يِف ِتٰوٰمَّسلا َو اَم يِف ِضْرَاْلا meaning that, as the universe is neither really self-existing, nor self-subsisting, it necessarily requires an Originating Cause through which it obtained life and subsistence. It is necessary that such an Originating Cause should comprehend all perfect attributes and should be the Controller of the universe by His will; He should be Wise and the Knower of the unseen. And He it is who is Allah. In the idiom of the Holy Quran, ‘Allah’ is the name of the Being who is comprehensive of all perfect excellences. That is why in the Holy Quran the name ‘Allah’ is described as the noun that refers to all perfect attributes. At various places it is stated that Allah is He who is Lord of the worlds, is Gracious and Merciful, is the Controller of the universe by His will, is Wise, Knower of the unseen, All-Powerful, Eternal and Everlasting, and so on. Thus, it has become a well-established idiom of the Holy Quran that ‘Allah’ is the name of the Being who combines in Himself all perfect attributes. That is why this verse begins with the name of Allah and proceeds: 2 ُهّٰللَا ۤاَل َهٰلِا اَّلِا َوُه١ۚ ُّيَحْلَا ُمْوُّيَقْلا Meaning that, the Sustainer of this transitory world is the Being who encompasses all excellences. 1. To Him belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:256). [Publisher] 2. S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:256 [Publisher]