Our God — Page 136
136 ages among different people were, God forbid, liars or mad or dim-witted, their great testimony—that they have seen and recog- nised God and have a personal relationship with Him—will stand firm and cannot be challenged by atheists. Can an atheist summon the courage to venture forth to prove to the world that Ibr a h i m as , M u s a as , ‘ I s a as , Krishan, and Zartasht were liars or insane; or the Holy Prophet saw , the Promised Messiah, and, likewise, all other Prophets were liars or insane, not to mention all those innumer- able S ula ha ’ and Auliy a ’ in every nation? No atheist can prove this. Is it not regrettable then that you believe in the existence of London, the North Pole, and the South Pole only on the say so of others; you believe the newspaper reports of other countries as related by Reuters, Havas, or some other news agency; and you accept new scientific facts as reported by the scientists without personally being involved in these experiments; but you reject the idea of the presence of God in the face of the testimony of mil- lions of knowledgeable and righteous persons. 1 َكْلِت اًذِا ٌةَمْسِق ىٰزْيِض One may argue, granted, I have not seen with my own eyes the things others claim [to have seen in existence], but the ability to see and observe those things is open to all. I would say: My dear naïve friends! May God grant you wisdom! The avenue for finding God is also open to you. Those who claim to have found God openly claim that if you adopt the path indicated by them—the path of reaching God—you, like them, can also find God and establish a 1. That indeed is an unfair division. ( S u rah an-Najm, 53:23) [Publisher]