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90 <strong>Barahin</strong>-e-ahmadiyya<br />
I am humble and speak with utmost courtesy;<br />
Allah knows that I bear no grudge against anyone.<br />
I have not ventured upon this task as a futile exercise;<br />
The spectacle of the beauty of my Beloved pulls me<br />
towards Him.<br />
Dear people! All wisdom and sagacity lies in recognizing in this<br />
very life the beliefs and principles on which depends the bliss<br />
or damnation of the hereafter and thereby establishing oneself<br />
on truth and shunning falsehood. Man should base his delicate<br />
beliefs—which he considers to be the basis of his salvation and<br />
eternal well-being—on absolute and decisive proofs rather than<br />
being proud and enamoured by the tales one was told by his<br />
mother or nanny in childhood. To cling onto myths and conjectures<br />
for which there is no credible argument amounts to selfdeception.<br />
Every rational person knows and understands that all<br />
Divine Books and the principles contained in them—which different<br />
nations regard as the means to their salvation and to winning<br />
divine approval, and on the basis of which they consign to<br />
damnation those who differ from them—ought not only to possess<br />
the testimony of the divine word, but must also be verifiable<br />
through reason and logic. While it is true that divine revelation<br />
is the most trustworthy source of knowledge, absolute certainty<br />
being dependent on it, it is equally true that if a scripture makes<br />
a claim that is clearly in conflict with reason and logic, such a<br />
claim will have to be considered false and such a scripture will
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