Testimony of the Holy Quran — Page 85
H A D R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD A S 85 that would be discovered is that a great portion of the teaching of the Prophets is beyond the reach of human intellect and can be understood and appreciated only through practical demonstra - tion, and can be imbued into the hearts only by those who have experienced them personally. For example, matters such as how the angels take a soul; how they take it to the heavens; how one is taken to account in the grave; what is the nature of Paradise, Hell, and the bridge of S ir at ; the fact that four angels are holding up the throne of Allah and that on the Day of Resurrection it will be eight; and the way God sends revelation to His servants and how He blesses them with divine visions—all these are spiritual phenomena that cannot be grasped through mere talk. This being the case, I say again that if Allah, the Lord of Glory, has so willed that this portion of the teaching of His Book should not be confined to the early ages, then without doubt He must have arranged also for the teachers of that portion to be availa - ble at all times, since the portion of the teaching which relates to personal experience can certainly not be comprehended except through teachers who have experienced it. The people stumble at minor and insignificant issues. Therefore if, after the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, such teachers did not come in Islam, who possessed the light of Prophethood by way of zill, it would appear that God Almighty deliberately allowed the Quran to become useless, since those who understood the Holy Quran truly and correctly were taken away from the world at a very early stage. But this would be contrary to His promise, as He says: