The Honour of Prophets — Page 8
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 8 son’s disposition and affinity. The capacity for love surges forth in the same manner. At times a person increases their love for another, to the extent that they are unable to find comfort except by seeing their beloved. Finally, the intensity of such a person’s love touches the heart of the other as well. Only such an individual who burns in the love of another can be their greatest and sincerest well wisher. As such, this fact is observed and noticed by mothers with respect to their children. Thus, love is the fundamental basis of intercession when accompanied by a natural affinity; for without natural affinity, love can never reach the required height to fulfil the precondition for intercession. In order to invest human nature with this relationship, God Almighty did not create Eve independently of Adam, but rather created her from the rib of Adam, as is said in the Holy Quran: 5 زَوْجَهَا وَ خَلَقَ مِنْهَا This means that it is from the being of Adam that we created Eve, his mate, so that Adam’s relationship to her and her progeny be natural and not artificial. This was done so that the affinity and sympathy between the children of Adam be enduring. Natural relations are 5 an-Nisa, 4:2