Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 350
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 350 on the part of the Bounteous Bestower of benefits as well as a deni- gration of the grandeur and greatness of the Word of Allah and the beloved Prophet, because the supreme effects of the Divine Word and the excellences of the spiritual power of the Innocent Prophet consist only in that the eternal light of the Divine Word should forever con- tinue to enlighten the purified and eager hearts; not that their impact should ever cease, nor that it should show its effect for a limited time and then become ineffective forever. It should not be like a medicine which has lost its efficacy. Moreover, when a truth has been actually present in every age and epoch as an externally verifiable reality, and is verifiable even now, and can be manifestly proven with numerous tes- timonies, how can any just person deny such a luminous verity? How and where can such manifest truth remain concealed? Whereas reason itself demands that as long as a tree remains alive it should continue to bear fruit, but it would be mere foolishness to expect fruit from the tree that is withered or cut off at its root. Given that the Glorious Furq a n [Holy Quran] is that magnificent and verdant tree, whose roots penetrate deep into the earth and whose branches ascend up to heaven, how is it possible to deny the fruits of such a blessed tree? Its fruits are patently manifest, for people have always been eating them, as they eat them even now, and shall continue to eat them in the future as well. Moreover, the following notion held by some ignorant ones is completely absurd and false: ‘In this age no one has access to these fruits; rather, their eating was the portion of only those who have gone before. They were the fortunate ones who ate those fruits and benefited from them, and afterwards were born those unfortunate ones whom the Master stopped from entering the orchard. ’ God does not let the capacity of those who are invested with it go waste; and the door of His bounties is not closed upon any true seeker. If any one entertains the false notion that there are times in cer- tain ages when the door to divine bounties is closed and the efforts and endeavours of able persons are wasted, he has not yet recognized