Testimony of the Holy Quran — Page 78
T E S T I MON Y OF T HE HOLY Q U R AN 78 of view and invite people to truth, love, and piety by the force of their example. The arguments for this are: First— Reason affirms that matters relating to God and the Hereafter are very subtle and conceptual, namely, one has to believe in matters of the unseen and beyond the realm of rational - ization. No one has ever seen God Almighty or observed Heaven and Hell, or met the angels. Moreover, divine commandments are opposed to the desires of the ego and restrain from that in which the ego delights. Therefore, reason dictates that it is not only appropriate, rather it is essential, that either the Prophets of God, who bring the law and the Book and possess spiritual power, should live long and continue to bless their followers in each century with their company, and should train them under their own graceful supervision and convey to them the blessing, light, and spiritual insights that they had provided in the early part of their ministry; or, if that should not be possible, then their spiritual heirs, who are equipped with their high quali - ties and can set forth the verities and insights comprised in the Divine Book, under the guidance of revelation, and can illustrate in practice that which is related to the past and can lead a seeker after truth to certainty, must continue to appear in times of trou - ble and trials so that those afflicted with doubt and forgetfulness should not be deprived of the true grace of the Prophets. It is obvious that when the time of a Prophet comes to an end, and those who have witnessed his blessings also pass away, their experiences become tales in the eyes of the people of the next generation. The moral qualities of the Prophet, his worship, his steadfastness, his devotion, divine support, extraordinary