The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 122
122. Essence of Islam II only from his reason and reflection and diligence and that, without having recourse to any other resource, he discovered the Unity of God and that his mind of itself arrived at the true recognition and understanding of God. Almighty? Who can prove to us that there was an age when Divine revelation was unknown and there was no. Holy Book and the people of that age believed in the. Unity of God and recognized Him merely through contemplation of the book of nature? Who can inform us of the country whose people, being unaware of revelation, were guided to God by their reason alone and believed in the Unity of the Divine by the exercise of their reflection and observation? [Brāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 1, pp. 219-220, footnote 11]. True Unity of God Cannot be Realized. Without Divine Revelation. Why the pure Unity of God cannot be learnt without. Divine revelation, and why one who denies revelation is not cleansed of paganism? This matter becomes apparent when one reflects upon the reality of Divine Unity. Unity means that one should believe that the Being and attributes of God are free of any association and that we should believe that the tasks which can be accomplished by God's Power cannot be accomplished by the power of anyone else. It is because of letting go of this Unity that fire-worshippers, sun-worshippers and idol-worshippers, etc. , are called pagans inasmuch as they supplicate their idols and divinities concerning matters the bestowal of which is in the hands of God alone. It is obvious that those who deny revelation also believe, like the idol worshippers, that creatures are invested with the attributes of the Divine. They believe that the powers of the