The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 27
Islam the True and Living Faith 27 like philosophers that there ought to be a Creator of this wonderful universe; he acquires a personal insight and, being honoured with a holy vision, he sees with the eye of certainty that that Creator in fact exists. He who is bestowed the light of this Holy Word does not merely guess like those who rely upon reason alone that God is. One, without associate. But through hundreds of shining signs which take him by the hand and lead him out of the darkness, such a person learns for himself that God has no associate in His Being or in His attributes. He is able to demonstrate to the world that he believes God to be such a Unity. The majesty of the Unity of God so fills his heart that in comparison with the Divine will, he regards the whole world as no more than a dead insect and indeed as nothing at all. [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 21, pp. 25-26]. Continued Beneficence of Islām. The God of a true religion should be so much in accord with reason and the light of nature that His existence should be a matter of proof for people who possess reason but who have no heavenly book in which they believe. He should be such as does not savour of coercion or artificiality. Such perfection is characteristic of the God Who is presented by the Holy Qur'ān. The followers of other religions have either abandoned the True. God, as have the Christians, or have attributed improper and low attributes to Him, as have the Jews, or have deprived Him of His attributes, as have the pagans and the Āryās. The God of Islām is the same True God Who is seen through the mirror of the law of nature and is visible in the book of nature. Islām has not presented a new God but has presented the same God Who is presented by the light of