Early Writings — Page 29
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS [Pundit Shiv Narayan's Reply] Respected Mirza Sahib! 29 I have received your kind letter as well as the essay attached to it. Sadly, I cannot agree with what you have stated regarding the definition of revelation and its need. I write herewith the reasons for my disagreement: Firstly: Putting aside the issue of whether or not your argu- ment (which you refer to as propter quid) can prove that there can be a cause for revelation, which you claim is an effect is a blatant error, which contradicts reality. For instance, you have written: We have no such absolute law whereby we can truly safe- guard ourselves from error. This is why even the philosophers who formulated rules of logic and debate, and constructed philosophical arguments have always made errors, and have left behind hundreds of absurd notions, flawed philosophies and meaningless discussions to remind the world of their ignorance. By this statement do suggest that all the investigations and efforts that man has made thus far over the course of thousands of years have produced nothing except false notions and philosophies, and absurd theories, and have thus failed to put forward any sound notion or theory or credible proposition; or do you mean that the researchers who are now engaged in investigations about nature are only adding to a collection of 'ignorance' and that they are simply unable to reach any truth? If you do not answer these