Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 116
116 hear ; and it gave them a fearless constancy and faithfulness with which they became ready to sacrifice their lives in this path. Can all these things be the result of a Satanic suggestion or a delusion? Is Satan the equal of God in power and glory ? Why is God then silent aad why does He not assist you? Listen to me^ for He who revealed this word to me, addressed me in the following word: "I shall reveal the light of My glory and raise thee with the manifestation of my power, A Warner came into the' world, but the world did not accept him. God shall. accept him, however, and- manifest his truth with mighty attacks. " It is, therefore, necessary. that this age should not pass away nor I depart from this world, until all these promises of God are fulfilled, The person who walks in darkness and is not even aware that Almighty God reveals His sure and certain Word to His servants,- is really ignorent of the existence of God. He thinks that the whole world is involved in the darkness of doubt like himself. He adheres to the doctrine that inspired words are nothing but temptations of the devil, confused dreams or delu- sions, or at the most, words of a doubtful and not certain Divine origin. But, as I have already stated, when the sun of Divine revelation shines upon a heart, the darkness of doubt and distrust is dispelled from iu, for it. is impossible that the darkness of doubt should remain in the heart which is illumined with the effulgent light; of the Word of God. The reception of a certain Divine revelation even by others than prophets, is amply exemplified in religious history. It was on the strength of a Divine revelation that the mother of Moses trusted her infant son to the waves of the river and yet she was not guilty of an infanticide in the sight of God which she ought to have been if she looked upon the words revealed to her as of a doubtful origin. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was also inspired with a certain Divine revelation, in