An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 29
29 the editor wrote in the magazine, the A ryah Sam a jists had not been able to answer the excellent arguments produced by Hadrat Ahmad as in his earlier articles. Hadrat Ahmad as also had a discussion with the editor of the Hind u Band u , namely Shiv N a r a’ in Agn i Hotr i , on the subject of "Revelation. " These discussions continued for over a month. Although Agn i Hotr i had vehemently denied the possibility of Divine revelation, the writings of Hadrat Ahmad as so convinced him about the existence of revelation that he severed all his connections with Brahm u Sam a j and started claiming that he himself was the recipient of revelation. Hadrat Ahmad as brought such a fundamental change in him that he began to preach the very thing against which he had tenaciously fought before. Specimen of Writing Then if man cannot escape error through his own knowledge and God, Who is Gracious and Merciful, and is Free from every mistake and Knows the truth of every matter, does not help His servants through His true revelation, how could we humble creatures emerge out of the darkness of ignorance and error and how could we be delivered from the calamities of doubt and suspicion? I therefore affirm it with confidence that the wisdom and mercy and sustaining love of God Almighty demand that from time to time, when He deems it right, He creates men who should be recipients of revelation for the purpose of ascertaining true doctrines and establishing correct morals, and who should have bestowed upon them the capacity of impressing their teachings upon others so that mankind, who have been created for the true guidance, should not be deprived of their needed good fortune. ( Pur a n i Ta h r i rei n , p. 21, R uha n i Khaz a’ in, vol. 2, p. 21)