Scattered Pearls — Page 7
6 "In the matter of this communion from God which takes place with me, were I to entertain the slightest doubt, even for a moment, I would turn a Kaafir (a disbeliever) and my welfare in the. Hereafter would suffer total destruction. . The Word of God which descends on me is a most absolute and perfect certainty; and just as no man can deny the sun and its light after he has seen this light for himself, with his own eyes, similarly, I cannot entertain the slightest doubt in regard to the Word of God which comes to me. On this I hold the same firm faith as I do in regard to the Book of God (the Holy Quran). " (Tajalleeaat-i-Ilaahiyah). Friends might here pause, to reflect at the extraordinary strength and firmness of conviction displayed by the Promised Messiah, that staking everything on this one throw of Eemaan and Kufr (belief and disbelief), he was prepared, without hesitation, to climb up to the gallows if his claim to Divine Mission and Divine Revelation should turn out to be false. This degree of Faith can belong only to him who should be seeing God with his own eyes, and who should be listening to the lifegiving Word with his own ears. On the basis of a faulty understanding, a defective assessment, or from weakness of his power of perception, or from prejudice, it is possible that a man may have doubts in regard to the Truth of the Promised Messiah's claim to a Divine. Mission; but no one in his proper senses can entertain any kind of doubt that Hazrat Ahmad had the fullest and the most complete faith in the truth and justice of his own claim. A hasty mind might be inclined to hold that he was perhaps labouring under some well meaning misconception in regard to his own self, or he was the victim of some hallucination, as has been done by some apparenty fairminded Westren writers, through shortsightedness, in assessing the Mission of the Holy Prophet