Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 178
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 178 depart from this transitory world one day. In this way, their pleasant- ness would not have remained with them, and they would not have attained the lofty status in the Hereafter; nor would their manliness, resolve, fidelity, and bravery have been universally a cknowledged, which proved them to be distinguished with no match, incomparable without a peer, unique of the unique, hidden beyond hidden where no one’s imagination could reach, and so perfect and brave as if each of them were a thousand lions in one body and a thousand leopards in one frame, whose power and strength rose above everyone’s imagi- nation and reached the loftiest ranks of nearness [of God]. The second part of the lives of Prophets and auliy a ’ is the one in which they enjoy the highest level in victory, prestige, and wealth; so that they may be able to demonstrate those essential high moral qual- ities that can be demonstrated only by one who enjoys victory, pres- tige, wealth, authority, sovereignty, and might. Possession of wealth and power is an essential condition to prove that someone possesses such high morals as forgiving his tormentors, pardoning those who have offended him, loving his enemies, desiring the good of those who desire nothing but evil for him, not loving wealth, not allow- ing himself to become arrogant on account of his riches, not to be niggardly and tight-fisted, to be generous and bountiful, not to use his wealth for satisfying baser passions, and not to exercise author- ity and governance as a tool of tyranny and aggression. These quali- ties are demonstrated only when a person possesses both wealth and authority. Without passing through a time of trial and misfortune, and also a time of prosperity and authority, these two types of high qualities cannot be manifested. That is why the perfect wisdom of the Almighty God demanded that Prophets and auliy a ’ should be pro- vided with both these types of conditions, which comprise thousands of bounties. The occurrence of these two conditions, however, does not follow the same order for all of them. Divine wisdom ordains in the case of some that the period of peace and comfort comes in the first part of