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232 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad grace? Would He who has established a special system for the protection of our physical body ignore the spiritual system? Therefore, God presents as a witness the phenomenon of rain in the form of an oath because prophethood is a mat- ter of spiritual and conceptual nature. Since the disbelievers of Mecca could not comprehend this spiritual system, God presents the physical system to help them understand. Therefore, this is a secret which the ignorant have failed to under- stand, and due to their foolishness and enmity against the truth, they have raised an allegation. They have ignored the actual objective that was intended in this usage by Allah the Exalted. The Meaning of Giving a Loan to Allah مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يُقْرِضُ اللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا In the same manner, a foolish person has alleged that i. e. who is it that will lend Allah a loan, demonstrates that God-forbid, Allah is pressed by need. The ignorant person fails to understand, how does this prove a need on the part of God? Here the word gard or 'loan' actually implies such things for which there is a guaranteed return. However, this ignorant person has falsely asserted that this implies a need or poverty on the part of God. Here the word 'loan' means, who will give Allah the Exalted their good deeds, so that He may grant them a manifold reward. Man's servitude to God possesses a relationship with divine providence in a manner that behoves the greatness of God. When a person reflects over this relationship, the concept becomes clear. For God Almighty nurtures everyone without their performing any good deed, or prayer and supplication, and without distinction between disbeliever and believer; by the grace of His providence (rububiyyat) and graciousness (rah- maniyyat) He bestows his favour on all. How then, can He allow anyone's good deeds to go to waste? The greatness of God Almighty is such that He states: فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرٌ ايَّرَهُ Meaning, whoso does an atom's weight of good shall be rewarded and whoso does an atom's weight of evil will also be punished. This is the actual purport of the word 'loan' which is derived from the verse just quoted. This verse expounds the actual meaning of the word 'loan. ' Since the actual purport of the word 'loan' is derived in context, God Almighty first states: al-Baqarah, 2:246 az-Zilzal, 99:8