Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 161
161 Again, the Holy Quran says: ;? ^ I ^; j ^'^ y &U ti ^uu) ] ^ ^ jJjJ y IK * ^-^JAJ -J ^ M ^ ^ J*IM uJ _j~ Itf ) ^ j;U^j ^iLj-J pS ^%>) ^ c V j ;*J pJ ^. ^s^^ J "The manifold occupations of the world divert your mind from God and you remain in this state of rernissness from Him until you visit <the graves. This is an error and you will soon know it, I tell you again that this is an error which you will, soon discover. Had you the knowledge of certainty, you would have soon seen by its application your hell, and would have known that this your life in sin is a hellish life. And if your certainty becomes greater, you would see with the eye of cercainty that your life led in sin and disobedience to God is a hellish life. A time will then come when you will be thrown into hell and there you will be questioned of your excesses in the dainties that were given you, (i. e. , being made to suffer actually the punishment you will realize that certainty). " These verses show that certainty is of three kinds : firstly, that which is obtained through reasoning and deduction, as, to give a homely illustration, the existence of fire in a place is inferred from the presence of smoke; secondly, the certainty which is gained when the thing itself is seen, as fire in the above case; thirdly, the highest degree of certainty is attained when the existence of a thing is fully realized as that of fire by casting one's hand into it. These are the three degrees of certainty which are termed respectively ^^ ) ci^and Vi ^l ^ c ^/^ ) ^ c. In these verses Almighty God has taught man that his true happiness lies in the nearness and love of God, and in breaking connection with Him a man leads a- fiellish life which ultimately becomes clear to him, though it be at the time when he is about to depart from this world and leave all his property behind him, Keferring to man's heavenly life, the Holy Quran says : 5 which means that whoever out of respect