The Shining Lamp — Page 146
146 THE SHINING LAMP Prophet. So how great a murderous attack upon the truth it is to reject such a fountainhead of blessings! The truth is that if the blessed being of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, did not exist, then the prophethood of no other Prophet could be proven. It is obvious that merely presenting fables and stories cannot be called evidence. Such fables are found amongst all nations in abundance. Accursed is the heart that bases its faith on mere fables, especially those who have made a helpless son of a mortal being into God- [as the proverb goes] praising someone without any rhyme or reason. When we look through the lens of impartiality, we come to know of only one man out of the entire series of prophet- hood as being the Prophetsas of the highest degree of courage, a living Prophetas, and the most dearly beloved Prophetsas of God-namely, that very Chief of the Prophets, the Pride of the Messengers, and the Crown of all Messengers, whose name is Muhammad Mustafa [the Chosen One] and Ahmad Mujtabā [the Elect], peace and blessings of Allah be upon him-by walk- ing under whose shadow for ten days one experiences the light that could not be encountered for a thousand years without him. What sort of books are those which, if we were following them, desire to make us into accursed, forsaken, and evil-hearted peo- ple? Can such prophethoods be called living under whose shadow we ourselves become dead? Know it for certain that they are all dead. Can the dead bestow light upon the dead? To worship Yasūʻ [Jesus Christ] is to wor- ship an idol. I swear by that Being in Whose hands my life is that had he been alive during my time, he would have had to humbly