Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 56
NU S R AT U L- H AQ Q — HE L P OF G OD 56 a person may babble a thousand times with his tongue, it is of no use until he attains such a recognition of his God that brings death upon his infernal life, and until his heart becomes filled with the love of God Almighty and he begins to hate sin. As such, anyone may claim to possess these qualities, but God’s true worshippers have the distinction that they are blessed on account of their pure love for God and are attended by His manifestations of word and deed. That is to say, they become those who converse with God Almighty and His miraculous acts are manifested in them. And God Almighty manifests many such revelations upon them in which He gives them advance tidings of His help, and then comes the time when that help materializes. Thus do they recognize their God and stand dis- tinguished from others through special Signs. They are granted a char- ismatic quality that attracts people towards them, and the love of God rains down upon their countenances. Without such a distinction, even a scoundrel, who is secretly an adulterer, sinner, and a drunkard, may be called virtuous; what, then, would be the difference between a truly righteous person and a pretender? It is in order to preserve this dis- tinction that God eternally bestows a miraculous life upon the right- eous, and His help always accompanies them in a way that is altogether miraculous. Bear in mind that the miraculous life of one righteous person evidences greater proof of the existence of God Almighty than the [entire] heavens and the earth insofar as no one has ever seen God cre- ating the heavens and the earth with His own hand. By only observing the exceedingly intelligent design of this universe and the culmination of its structure into the highest perfection and stability, sound reason can comprehend the necessity of the fact that there ought to be some Creator of these incomparable creations. However, reason by itself can- not reach the point that that Creator actually exists because it has not seen this Creator creating. Further, the entire basis for rationally recog- nizing God is simply the need for a Creator, not that His existence is personally experienced; whereas, the miraculous life of a righteous one