Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 323
SuB-Footnote Number Three 323 This indicates that it is incorrect to presume that certain things within this universe—which exhibits such orderly arrangement and perfect structure—can be the originating cause of others. On the con- trary, for this wise enterprise, which is filled to the brim with wisdom, a Creator is needed who should exercise control by His will and should be Wise, All-Knowing, Ever-Merciful, Immortal, and should encom- pass all perfect attributes. So He is Allah, who possesses the utmost perfection in His Being. After establishing the proof for the existence of the universe’s Creator, it was necessary to impress upon a seeker after truth that the Creator is free from every kind of association. So, this was indicated in: 1 اخل ْلُق َوُه ُهّٰللا ٌدَحَا. ُهّٰللَا ُدَمَّصلا. Observe with what elegance and excellence in this brief statement, which is not even one line long, the Being of the Maker has been described as free from every kind of association. The explanation of this is that, according to the reckoning of reason, association can be of four types. Sometimes, association is in respect of number, and at other times in rank, sometimes in respect of descent, and sometimes in respect of action and effect. So, in this s u rah, it has been declared that God is free from association of all four of these types. It has been made clear that He is One in number and is not two or three. He is Samad; that is, He is Unique and Incomparable in His station of being the Necessary Existence and Needed by all, while everything besides Him has only a contingent and mortal existence and is ever dependent upon Him. And He is ْمَل ْدِلَي , which means that He has no son so that he, by virtue of being His son, should be His partner; He is ْمَل ْدَلْوُي , which means that He has no father so that, by virtue of being His father, he should be His partner; and He is ْمَل ْنُكَي ٗهَّل اًوُفُك , which means that no one can be His 1. Say, ‘He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Independent and Besought of all’ ( S u rah al-Ikhl as , 112:2–3). [Publisher]