Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 59
S IGN S OF T HE T RU E FAIT H 59 of you know and recognize us well. We lived in such and such locality; we were the fathers or grandfathers of so and so; we died some years ago from the plague or cholera, or some other disease and you took part in our funerals. You were indeed the ones who buried or cremated us. Thereafter, with extreme contempt, you rejected this noble Prophet who presides over this gathering and labelled him a liar and demanded that he show a miracle whereby the dead come back to life. So, through his prayer, we were brought back to life and are standing before you now. Gentlemen, open your eyes and look carefully: We are those very ones. You can ask us what our stories are. Having come back to life, we can bear witness that this man is true and that we burned in Hell for having rejected him. Accept, therefore, our eyewitness testimony so that you may be saved from Hell. ’ Can anyone in his right mind and conscience, possessing an enlightened heart, accept that someone ever returned from the dead and delivered such a lecture and yet people did not believe him? Anyone who still does not understand to what extent Signs are shown is himself a dead man. If Signs required such speeches by the dead, faith would have no meaning because faith is called faith at the point that something is perceived manifest in one way while simultane- ously perceived hidden in another way; meaning that, its proof can be discovered through fine observation, but if it is not looked at with fine observation, the truth can remain concealed upon cursory observation. However, when the entire veil [of concealment] has been lifted, then who would not accept something so openly obvious? So by ‘miracles’ is meant the supernormal phenomena that are proven through deep and judicious perception, and which none but those supported by God are capable of showing; it is for this reason that they are called supernor- mal phenomena. The eternally unfortunate, however, cannot benefit from such miracles. The Jews, for instance, witnessed many miracles at the hands of the Messiah, may peace be upon him, but failed to bene- fit from them. Instead they objected that some of his prophecies had not been fulfilled such as the prophecy that had been made about the