Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 139
Footnote Number Eleven — Eighth Objection 139 ابدخاےئ ُن ک ربارب را وخد ہچ لقع و ادارک و راےئ � ی � �ُن پ � وفت رب How can you consider yourself equal to God? Woe upon such intellect, thought, and reason! دخا وُچں دےل را ہب یتسپ دنگف دنلب رکدن ی یار� ن � ِش ش وکب� When God casts someone into the pit of disgrace, We cannot get him out of it with our own effort. وبد آں ِ اکر ااجنم و ی ش س وکب داں وبد ر ن ی ہک آں وخاشہ و راےئ � We can only render our best efforts, The result will always be what God desires and deems appropriate. Eighth Objection: It is disrespectful to suggest that God speaks to man. What relationship can subsist between the mortal and the Eternal and Ever-Existing. What resemblance can there be between a handful of dust and the Eternal Light itself. Answer: This objection is also baseless and absurd. To shatter it, it is enough to understand that the Benevolent and the Gracious has inspired the hearts of perfect human beings with untold zeal for His cognition, and has drawn them so powerfully to His love, affection and devotion that they have been lost to their own selves. To propose in such a case that God would not desire to converse with them would be tantamount to saying that all their yearning and love is vain and all their zeal is one-sided. However, one must stop to think that this notion is utter nonsense. Can a seeker of the One who bestowed upon man the capacity to win nearness to Him, and made him restless with His own love and yearning, be deprived of the grace of converse with Him? How can it be that, though it is right and legitimate and in accord with God’s maj- esty that His creatures should yearn for Him, love Him, and lose their