Early Writings — Page 7
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD (AS) 7 existence of all things is eternal like Him, then He cannot be the One, the Omnipotent Lord. The reason He cannot be the One in this case is that the very definition of the Oneness of God Almighty is that He has no partner whatsoever. Now, if God is not the Creator of the souls, this would constitute association of partners with God in two respects. First, if all the souls in their entirety are not His creation, then they would have to be accepted as being akin to Him and thus eternal like Him. Secondly, one will have to believe in their connection that like God, the True Lord, they too enjoy eternal existence which is not dependent on anything. This is the inherent definition of associating others with God, and to hold an associate with the Creator in respect of creation is evidently false in terms of rationality, for this would mean that there is a partner to the Creator, while the concept of a partner to the Creator is utterly impossible and unthinka- ble. Therefore, any premise which results in an impossibility is inherently flawed. What is more, a God with a partner cannot be the All-Powerful Lord either. For the attribute of being the All- Powerful Lord means that He has full command over everything, and rules and prevails over everything. As such, God cannot bring under His control such things that are not His creation- including the souls. The reason is that such things which, with respect to their persons, are eternal and are not His creation are by necessity independent of Him in respect of their existence, as they do not require any other cause for the substantiation of their personal existence. This, in other words, known as the concept of the 'necessary being, who, in turn, is known in Persian as Khudā [God], i. e. the Self-Subsisting Lord. the concept which is Hence, if souls are akin to the Creator as 'God' and if they are