Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 343
SuB-Footnote Number Three 343 with excellence and affability in every condition up to the end of their lives, and they suffer no mental constraint to prevent them from exhib- iting these good morals as required. The truth is that whatever good quality, whether intellectual or relating to conduct or morals, that can be manifested by man, cannot be manifested by human capabilities alone; rather, the real cause of its manifestation is Allah’s grace. As these people receive Allah’s grace more than anyone else, the Benevolent God bestows all good qualities upon them through His boundless beneficence. In other words, no one is truly good except God Almighty and all high moral qualities and all virtues are proven for Him alone. Then to the degree to which a person, discarding his self and his will, acquires nearness to the Being who is All Good, to that degree divine qualities are reflected in his soul. Thus, all of the good qualities and truly civilized behaviours that a person acquires proceed from his nearness to God alone. This is how it should have been, for creatures are nothing in themselves. Thus, the reflection of divine moral qualities is manifested only in the hearts of those who follow the Holy Quran perfectly; and it can be demonstrated with valid investigation that pure behaviour, spiritual eagerness, and the upsurge of love with which high moral qualities are manifested by them, are not equalled anywhere in the world. Even though anyone can make a verbal claim and can talk tall by way of boasting, these are the only people who can pass safely through the narrow door of valid investigation. Some such good qualities as may be demonstrated by other peo- ple are demonstrated with dissimulation and artificiality. They make a display of their false civilized behaviours by hiding their impurities and concealing their diseases, and their reality is exposed on the occa- sion of every little test. They adopt dissimulation and artificiality in the exercise of high moral qualities mostly because they find it conducive to maintaining good order in their life and civilization; if they were to follow their inner impurities on all occasions, their way of life would be disrupted. Although they carry a seed of good qualities according to their natural capacity, it is suppressed under the thorns of their ego’s