Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 158
\ 158 condition like the helpless cripple who lying in a desert parched with thirst, suddenly sees a spring of sweet and clear water and halting and limping takes himself to it, and applies his burning lips to the cool water, not parting them until he is satiated,- I say, unless we fully realize our own utter weakness and inability and the mighty power and beneficient grace of God which we constantly draw upon, we are not free from shirk and do not deserve to be called Unitarians. With respect to His own attributes of excellence and per- fection, Almighty God says in the Holy Quran : ^ )*>*. ) *JJ ) ^ Jj **. ) ) jtf *J ^ f J j *J y. r ) j orb ^ *d ) " Your God is the God who is one in His person and without any participator in His attributes. He is God alone, for there is no being which is like Him eternal and everlasting, nor has any being its attributes like His attributes. " The knowledge of man is acquired and limited, but the knowledge of God is neither acquired nor limited. The power of hearing in man depends upon the trans- mission of sound by air and is moreover a limited power, but the power of hearing in God is an inherent power and is unlimited. The power of seeing things in man depends upon the light of the sun or some other light and is limited, but Almighty God sees things without the assistance of any light and His power of sight is an unlimited one. The power of man to make things depends upon the existence of material and is a limited power while the act of making must occupy some time, but the creating power of God does not stand in need of any existing material, is unlimited and does not depend upon time im its exercise. As there is nothing that is like Him, so there is nothing whose attributes are like His attributes. For if there is any defect in one of His attributes all His attributes must be defective, and if one of his attributes can be possessed by any one else, then all His attributes can be