Early Writings — Page 71
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 71 of sixty or seventy years. Moreover, population multiplies after a period of fifteen years. A clear proof of this fact is that islands which were previously uninhabited have now become populated. The second argument in favour of the existence of the Necessary Being is that no creation can be observed to exist with- out the agency of a creator. Even a small room cannot be con- structed without a builder. Then, how can this large room' the floor of which extends over a distance of more than 24,000 miles and the roof of which is built in a most flawless and reinforced manner, adorned with lamps that give light-all ordered in such a way that one of them stands superior with others subservient to it in brilliance have been self-created, without someone having created it. An atheist would respond by saying that we can visually observe the people who create physical rooms in this world, but we cannot see the creator of heaven and earth. I would say that if the argument is that a worldly builder can be physically seen, then what need is there to provide evidence of his existence? The need to provide evidence arises only when something that can- not be physically seen must be proven. One observes that many ancient buildings are present in Egypt which the people of this age cannot recreate. However, it can still be accepted with cer- tainty that it was worldly builders who erected those structures. These created structures themselves are proof of the existence of a builder, irrespective of whether one can see those builders now or not. If a man were the first to invent a certain machine, and no one had ever built this type of a creation before him, even if we had not seen that individual ourselves, would we deduce that the creation in question built itself? Every intelligent design proves