Early Writings — Page 33
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 33 it not possible for God, who is Gracious and Merciful and Wise, to grant him two eyes in the back of his head as well, so that he could be alerted to the danger and try to protect himself from it? Therefore, you claim that when there is a need for two eyes at the back of the head as well, it would be necessary for God to provide man these two eyes so that he is able to further protect himself. Additionally, if someone were to argue that the intellect of man is prone to error and cannot even know, in advance, that the ship on which he is going to travel from Bombay to England will face a severe storm in the sea a week or so after its departure, which is bound to destroy it; so while man, on his own, is unable to safe- guard himself from the destructive and fatal impact of the storm and while only God (who is Gracious and Merciful and free of every error and flaw and is the knower of the reality of every mat- ter) can forthwith help His servants through His angels, how can we-His weak and helpless servants-safeguard ourselves from the fatal storm? The wisdom, mercy and compassion of that All- Powerful Lord, therefore, demands that He keeps informing us of the storm well before it has actually hit us, so that we can save ourselves and our ship. Now, evidently, those who are blessed with the ability to suffi- ciently fathom the deeper reality of things and are well-versed in principles of logic would consider the two aforementioned argu- ments of mine to be categorically absurd and unfounded. The rea- son for this is that in the first place the argument constructed to prove the 'need', which I have declared to be the cause for the con- clusion I have drawn, is an argument based merely on my imagina- tion and fancy, and is not supported by the laws of nature. Rather, in doing so we neglect the laws of nature altogether, and put forth