Early Writings — Page 27
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 27 First Propter Quid Argument for the Need of Revelation We have no such absolute law whereby we can truly safeguard ourselves from error. This is why even the philosophers who for- mulated rules of logic and debate, and constructed philosophical arguments have always made errors, and have left behind hun- dreds of absurd notions, flawed philosophies and meaningless discussions to remind the world of their ignorance. This proves that it is utterly impossible for a person who depends solely upon their own investigations to reach the essence of every truth and arrive at a reliable opinion about a thing without making any error in judgment. I say this because I have never seen or heard of, or found in any book of history the name of any such person who was perfectly free from every error and mistake regarding all their conclusions and judgments. In light of inductive reasoning, we arrive at the correct and truthful conclusion that the existence of such people who have reached the pinnacle of truth in their inves- tigations by contemplating and reflecting only on the laws of nature and reconciling their own judgement with the phenome- non of the universe—such that it is impossible to find any error in their understanding, is itself an impossibility, as observation has always demonstrated. Nonetheless, the only way you could argue my assertion, which you have the right to challenge, would be for forth an you to put argument against the inductive argument I have made and thus disprove my conclusion. In other words, the correct approach in presenting a response is that if, in your view, my inductive reason- ing is flawed, you ought to show me, so as to refute my reasoning,