The Honour of Prophets — Page 26
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 26 that God protects from human frailty the person who seeks forgiveness and performs istighfar with His own divine power and grants him strength from His own strength, and knowledge from His own knowledge, and light from His own light. For after having created man, God has not left him alone, but as He is man’s Creator and the Maker of all his external and internal faculties, He is also the Sustainer of man. In other words, He safe guards with His unique support everything that He has created. God is All Sustaining and maintains creation through His own support. It is, therefore, incumbent on man that since he has come into existence by the creating hand of God, he should seek to safeguard the features of his creation from corruption through God’s support. For the divine attribute of creation has bestowed upon man the favour of creating him in God’s image. Hence, God’s support demands that the pure image of man, which God has fashioned with His own two hands be saved from adulteration and ruin. Therefore, through istigh - far, man has been taught to seek strength from God’s support. So even if sin had no existence in the world, there would still be istighfar , because the true purpose of istighfar is that the edifice of humanity constructed by God’s attribute of creation does not collapse, but rather stands firm. And it is impossible for something to stand