Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 343
343 Dot set up with Him any other God, neither in heaven nor in earth. Oar God is the God who is living now as He was living before, Who speaks now as He spoke before, and Who hears now as He heard before. It is an unfounded idea that He hears now, but He does not speak. He speaks as He hears; all His attributes are eternal, and none of them lies or will ever lie idle. He is the one, without any partner, Who has neither son nor wife. He has no like or equal, and as He is distinguished by attributes which no one else possesses, so there is none other who should be unique in any respect like Him. There is none of equal rank with Him and none who has the same attributes, and He holds all power in His hands, Being very far He is still very near, and being near, He is still far. He shows Himself by way of similitude to the seers, but he has neither body nor form. He is above all, but we can- not say that below Him there is anything else ; He is on the arshj but we cannot say He is not on earth. He is the Master of all the perfect attributes, the manifestation of all the praises, the source of all beauties, the possessor of all power, the origin of all grace, the returning place of all things, the King of all regions, the Lord of all, Who has every perfec- tion and is free from every fault or weakness, and to Him is due worship from all those who are in heaven or in earth. There, is nothing impossible with Him, and all the souls and their faculties and all the particles of matter and their powers are His creation, and without Him nothing can come into existence. He manifests Himself by His own power and might and signs, and Him we can find only through Him. He ever manifests Himself to the righteous and shows them the wonders of His power. It is thus that He is recog- nised and it is thus that Elis will is known. He sees without