Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 60
60 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا وَالَّذِيْنَ هُمْ مُّحْسِنُونَ Verily, Allah is with those who are righteous and those who do good. One Ought to Make Use of Reason We should also make use of reason because it is on account of this faculty that a human being is held accountable. No person can be compelled to accept things which stand against reason. The shariah has never compelled a person to bear anything beyond the strength and capacity of their faculties. لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا Allah burdens not any soul beyond its capacity. From this verse, it is clearly evident that the commandments of Allah Almighty are not such as are beyond the ability of one to fulfil. Furthermore, God Almighty has not disclosed His injunctions and laws to the world so that He may exhibit His eloquence and articulate speech to man, or to flaunt His lawmaking and story- telling ability—as if He had determined from the very beginning that foolish and weak human beings would never be able to act upon these injunctions. God Almighty is above and beyond such vain practices. Christians do believe, however, that no person on earth can follow divine law and fulfil the commandments of God. These foolish people do not even realise that what need then was there for God to reveal divine law at all? In their view and belief, God-forbid, it was a vain and futile act for Allah Almighty to reveal religious laws to the past Prophets. In actuality, the Christians were forced to attribute such a flaw to the Holy Being of God in order to craft the concept of the Atonement. I am amazed and astonished that in order to establish the foundation for a self-invented doctrine they did not even bother to consider the sort of vile criticism to which God's Being becomes susceptible. Every Commandment of the Quranic Teaching is Underpinned by Purpose and Wisdom Indeed, a quality of the Quranic teaching is that its every commandment is underpinned by purpose and wisdom. And for this reason, there is emphasis throughout the Holy Quran to make use of reason, understanding, contempla- 1 an-Nahl, 8:129 al-Baqarah, 2:287