The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 63
Revelation, Inspiration, Vision and Dream 63. Consider the prophecies of the Holy Qur'an and you will find that they are not like the predictions of the astrologers or others but are full of majesty and glory. All those prophecies are characterised by declaring the honour of the recipients and the disgrace of their enemies, their glory and the humiliation of their enemies, their success and the failure of their enemies, their victory and the defeat of their enemies, and their prosperity and the ruin of their enemies. Can any astrologer or soothsayer or mesmerizer put forth such prophecies? Certainly not. . Always to proclaim one's own good, and the decline of the opponent and to refute whatever the opponent says and to promise the fulfilment of that which is in one's favour, can only be from God and cannot be the doing of man. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 1, pp. 232-242, footnote 11]. Man's Knowledge of the Universe is Defective. Though man has been trying strenuously for thousands of years to discover God's powers through natural sciences and mathematics, yet his knowledge is so defective that he can only be described as hopeless and unsuccessful in his search. Hundreds of hidden mysteries are disclosed to those to whom visions and revelation are vouchsafed and they are borne witness to by thousands of the righteous; but the philosophers continue to deny them. The philosophers base all thinking and reflection on the brain, but those who have experience of visions have discovered through their spiritual experiences that the fountainhead of reason and understanding is the heart. For thirty five years, I have observed that revelation which is the source of spiritual understanding and of the knowledge of the unseen descends upon the heart. Very often a voice strikes the heart with force, as a bucket is thrown with