Early Writings — Page 19
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 19 to immediately make a thing, they ultimately become frustrated by these demands and are compelled to retort by saying that they are not God who can create a thing by a mere command and that they will make the required item only when they are able to pro- cure the necessary materials. In short, everyone knows that to be the Perfect Maker, one must possess absolute omnipotence and providence. The Perfect Maker need not wait for X to die before bestowing a child upon Y. Nor is He compelled to wait for X to expire before He blows life into the foetus of Y who is in a womb. Hence, this establishes the validity of the minor premise. The validity of the major premise that God must possess per- fect omnipotence if He is to be the Creator of all forms of creation is established by the minor premise itself. Further, it is evident that if God does not possess the absolute power that is necessary over everything, His omnipotence would depend merely on the occurrence of certain coincidences; and as I have stated, it is simple for reason to grasp that in such a case there is a possibility that such things whose availability depends on chance may not be available to Him at a particular time, for they are incidental and not necessarily acquirable at all times, whereas it is essential for the soul to be connected to the foetus at a specific time during the stages of its development. Hence, this proves that if God is to act at the right time, it is necessary for Him to possess the perfect omnipotence. This argument also proves that God must be All-Powerful because we can, for instance, in view of the established rules of philosophy, suppose that for a certain period of time all existing