Early Writings — Page 35
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 35 that the wisdom, mercy and compassion of the Omnipotent Lord demands from time to time, whenever He deems it nec- essary to raise such people who receive revelation from God so that they are enlightened in respect of true beliefs and morals. In this argument of yours, the reasoning that you have presented regarding need' is similar to the arguments that I have presented; whereas the laws of nature do not support them. Hence, such rea- soning proves nothing, and is merely hypothetical and imaginary in nature. The reason for this is that one can cite a hundred such ‘needs. ” The question, however, is whether divine wisdom accepts those needs' to be genuine, or not. According to the intellectuals, only that 'need' is a 'true need' which is acknowledged by nature or the wisdom of God Almighty. For instance, our need to eat in order to satiate our hunger or our need to breathe air is not a hypothetical one; it is rather a natural requirement. That is why God has provided both resources to us in reasonable amounts to support human life. But a need which nature does not acknowl- edge as a genuine need of man and which we, on our own, con- sider to be a need is a hypothetical one. This is why when we cite it as a cause for a conclusion, the conclusion too is proved false in light of observation. I have amply explained this in the examples cited above. Secondly, as for the degree to which your statement seeking to define revelation is relevant to the argument you have presented, it would be sufficient to write that the very 'need' on which you have based your argument in support of revelation is baseless, i. e. nature does not consider such a need to be a valid one. Now, even if we accept that the building you have raised on such a foundation