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246 Pages·2007·1.85 MB·English

'Are you in doubt concerning Allah (God), Maker of the
Heavens and the Earth?'
(The Holy Quran)

Our God

Proving the existence of God by rational means

by
Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad, M.A.

ISLAM INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS LTD.
OUR GOD
English rendering of Hamara Khuda (urdu)
by Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad, M.A.

© Islam International Publications Ltd.

First Published in UK in 2007

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Cover Design by: Adnan Rashid

ISBN: 1 85372 878 0
About the Author

Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmadra was born to the
Promised Messiahas on April 20, 1893, according to
the Divine prophecy:
'The moon of the Prophets will arrive and your
affair will become manifest… Soon a son will
be born to you and grace will come close to
you.'
He passed his matriculation with distinction in 1910
and did M.A. (Arabic) in 1916 in compliance with
the wish of the Promised Messiahas.
The blessings of Allah with him, the prayers of
the Promised Messiahas for him, the guidance given
H d i ih
to him by his elder brother, a rat Khal fatul Mas
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IIra, and his God-given abilities enabled him to serve
a
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam ‘at throughout his life in
various capacities.
He was a great religious scholar, a prolific writer
and his books and articles and speeches are easily
comprehensible to an average reader. He wrote on
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numerous topics; his magnum opus is S rat-e-
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Kh tamun Nabiyy n. S ratul Mahdi, Silsila-e-
i a s
Ahmadiyya, Tabl gh-e-Hid yat, Kalimatul Fa l and
a a a
Ham r Khud are some of his important works.
Apart from his books, he contributed many articles
the number of which runs into hundreds, to the
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Jam ‘at dailies and periodicals especially Al-Fa l.
He was a man of God, the recipient of Divine
revelations and visions and would not disclose them
except rarely. One of his revelations was 'Assalamo
Alaikum' 'Peace be upon you' and another was:

i.e., 'Rise Muhammadi, the time of your eminence
has drawn close'.
He passed away on September 2, 1963, at the age
of 71.
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Table of Contents
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE VII
PREFACE XI
FOREWORD 1
THE PLIGHT OF FAITH IN THE PRESENT AGE 3
IF THERE IS A GOD, WHY CAN WE NOT SEE HIM? 9
WHY SHOULD WE TRY TO FIND OUT ABOUT GOD? 17
METHODS OF INVESTIGATION INTO GOD’S
EXISTENCE 29
THE ROLE OF MOTIVE IN RESEARCH 31
TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF BELIEF IN GOD 37
RATIONAL ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD 45
Precautionary Argument 45
Argument from Human Nature 48
Cosmological Argument and the Argument from design 55
Western Scholars and the Existence of God 68
Why People are Misled by Modern Philosophy ? 81
God is Eternal and Uncreated 91
Why do we not accept the World to be Self Existing? 96
The Moral Argument 105
Argument of Universal Acceptance 112
Faith or Superstition? 115
Three Levels of Certainty 117
Argument of the Supremacy of Prophets 119
Testimony of the Righteous 136
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES OF BELIEF IN GOD 147
Belief in God brings about Unity 148
Is Religion the Cause of Wars and Strife? 155
A Personal Note 166
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Belief in God dissuades man from evil 167
Belief in God encourages Man to do Good 169
Belief in God helps understand the Nature of Things 169
Belief in God brings about True Satisfaction 173
Belief in God Provides the High Standard for Morality 174
REFUTATION OF ATHEISTIC ARGUMENTS 177
Three kinds of Atheists 177
Refutation of the First Argument 178
Refutation of the Second Argument 179
Refutation of the Third Argument 180
Refutation of the Fourth Argument 183
Refutation of the Fifth Argument 183
The Importance of Distinguishing between the Laws of
Nature and of Shariah 184
Transmigration of Souls 189
Why it is Important to Distinguish between the Law of
Nature and the Law of Shariah 192
What is the Cause of Sin? 194
Refutation of the Sixth Argument 197
Why have Injurious and Harmful things been Created? 199
Refutation of the Seventh Argument— Freud’s Theory 201
COMMUNISM AND GOD 209
Just Distribution of Wealth in Islam 213
CONCLUSION 217
EPILOGUE 219
INDEX 225
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Publishers Note
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Ham r Khud was written by a rat Mirza
Bashir Ahmadra, M.A. in 1927 and published in
1928. It was revised by the author in 1946 and
three new chapters were added. The third edition
was published in 1955.
This is the first English rendering. Though Urdu
idioms and phraseology do not easily translate into
English, great pains have been taken to make the
translation as clear as possible to the reader.
We are sincerely grateful to Mr. Bilal Khalid for
the original translation, and to Mr. Raja Ata-ul-
Mannan and Mr. Zulkarnain for revising and
editing the translation. We are also grateful to
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Mirza Anas Ahmad Wak lul Ish ‘at Rabwah and
his team specially Mr. Shahid Mahmood Ahmad
and Mr. Shaikh Naseer Ahmad for typesetting,
transliteration of the text and preparing an index.
Similarly we are thankful to Mr. Munir-ud-Din
il- snif
Shams, Additional Vak ut-Ta London for his
valuable suggestions to improve the translation, to
Syed Mansoor Ahmad Shah who finally edited and
revised the translation and to Mr. Mahmood Ahmad
Malik (Central Computer Department London) for
making the corrections.
The name of Muhammadsa, the Holy Prophet of
Islam, has been followed by the symbol sa, which is an
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abbreviation for the salutation ( ) Sallallahu ‘Alaihi
Wasallam (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him). The names of other Prophetsas and messengers
are followed by the symbol as, an abbreviation for
( / ) ‘Alaihissalam/ ‘Alaihimussalam (on whom be
peace). The actual salutations have not generally been
set out in full, but they should nevertheless, be
understood as being repeated in full in each case. The
symbol ra is used with the name of the Companions of
the Holy Prophetsa and those of the Promised
Messiahas. It stands for ( / / ) Radi Allahu
‘anhu/‘anha/‘anhum (may Allah be pleased with him/
with her/ with them). rh stands for ( ) Rahimahullahu
Ta‘ala (may Allah’s blessing be on him). at stands for
( ) Ayyadahullahu Ta‘ala (may Allah, the Al-Mighty
help him).
In transliterating Arabic words we have followed
the following system adopted by the Royal Asiatic
Society.
ا at the beginning of a word, pronounced as a, i, u
preceded by a very slight aspiration, like h in the
English word 'honour'.
ث th, pronounced like th in the English word
'thing'.
ح h, a guttural aspirate, stronger than h.
خ kh, pronounced like the Scotch ch in 'loch'.
ذ dh, pronounced like the English th in 'that'.
ص s, strongly articulated s.
ض d, similar to the English th in 'this'.
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ط t, strongly articulated palatal t.
ظ z, strongly articulated z.
ع ‘, a strong guttural, the pronunciation of which
must be learnt by the ear.
غ gh, a sound approached very nearly in the r
'grasseye' in French, and in the German r. It
requires the muscles of the throat to be in the
'gargling' position whilst pronouncing it.
ق q, a deep guttural k sound.
ئ ’, a sort of catch in the voice.
Short vowels are represented by:
a for (like u in 'bud');
i for (like i in 'bid');
u for (like oo in 'wood');
Long vowels by:
a for or (like a in 'father');
i for ى or (like ee in 'deep');
u for و (like oo in 'root');
Other:
ai for ى (like i in 'site')♦;
au for و (resembling ou in 'sound').
The letter 'e' in transliterated words is to be
pronounced as in 'prey' which rhymes with 'day';
however the pronunciation is flat without the element
of English diphthong. If in Urdu and Persian words 'e'
is lengthened a bit more it is transliterated as 'ei' to be

♦ In Arabic words like (cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4) (Shaikh) there is an element of diphthong
which is missing when the word is pronounced in Urdu.
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pronounced as 'ei' in 'feign' without the element of
diphthong thus '(cid:2)(cid:3)' is transliterated as 'Kei'. For the
nasal sound of 'n' we have used the symbol 'ń'. Thus
Urdu word '(cid:6)(cid:4)(cid:7)(cid:5)' is transliterated as 'meiń'.*
The consonants not included in the above list have
the same phonetic value as in the principal languages
of Europe.
We have not transliterated Arabic words which
have become part of English language, e.g., Islam,
Mahdi, Quran**, Hijra, Ramadan, Hadith, ulama,
umma, sunna, kafir, etc.
For quotes straight commas (straight quotes) are
used to differentiate them from the curved commas
used in the system of transliteration, ‘ for ع, ’ for ء.
Commas as punctuation marks are used according to
the normal usage. Similarly for apostrophe normal
usage is followed.

The Publishers

* These transliterations are not included in the system of transliteration
by Royal Asiatic Society. [Publisher]
** Concise Oxford Dictionary records Quran in three forms—Quran,
Qur’an and Koran. [Publisher]
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