Early Writings — Page 47
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 47 for creating the souls. For you and I are already believers that God is All-Powerful. To this extent, there is no matter of contention between us. The contention has arisen on your account when you suggested that the All-Powerful God is unable to create the souls. Hence, under these circumstances, you ought to judge for yourself as to who is responsible for providing evidence. If, for the sake of argument, we assume that the burden of proof was on me even though you are the one who has made the claim, I would hereby like to give you the good news that I have already provided categorical proof of God being the Creator in the issue of Safir-e-Hind dated 21 February. When you study the aforementioned edition of the newspaper with justice, you will be fully satisfied. Moreover, it is self-evident that only that being can be God who brought into existence the whole of creation, not one who, like despotic rulers, establishes His divinity by simply dominating others. As for your apprehension that since God cannot create another being like his own, so too, He is also perhaps unable to create the souls, I have penned a befitting answer to this in the same news- paper mentioned above, in the edition dated 9 February. To sum- marise, God does not perform such actions as may undermine His eternal attributes. For instance, He cannot create a partner like unto Himself; He cannot destroy Himself, for if He does, His eternal attributes such as His Oneness and everlasting existence will be rendered false. This is why the Lord of Holiness will never perform any such act as would contradict His eternal attributes. Apart from this, He can do whatever He wills. Hence, you are mistaken when you 1 draw an analogy between the creation of souls and the creation of partners with God. I have already stated that