Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 84
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 84 beyond physical perception, the highest degree of satisfaction, solace, and comfort to the mind, which is capable of averting carnal passions and spiritual misfortunes, can only be obtained from the Word of God? Reflection upon the law of nature cannot establish any better means of comfort and satisfaction. When a person believes wholeheartedly in the Word of God and there is no intervention of any overt or cov- ert aversion, the Word of God saves him from fierce whirlpools, fights off intense carnal passions, and affords him patience during the most terrifying calamities. When a wise person, at the time of any difficulty or arousal of carnal passion, finds a promise or warning in the Word of God, or someone else explains to him what God has commanded, he is immediately affected so deeply that he goes on repenting uncon- trollably. Man is in dire need of being comforted by God. Very often he is overtaken by such misfortunes that he would have been so dis- couraged as to possibly deny the very existence of God, would have cut off his relationship with God altogether in his hopelessness, or would have perished from the shocks of grief, had the Word of God not been revealed and had it not provided him with this glad tiding: َنْيِذَّلا ۤاَذِا ْمُهْتَباَصَا ٌةَبْيِصُّم١ۙ اْۤوُلاَق اَّنِا ِهّٰلِل َو ۤاَّنِا ِهْيَلِا َنْوُعِجٰر َكِٕىٰٓلوُا ْمِهْيَلَع ٌتٰوَلَص ْنِّم ْمِهِّبَّر َو ٌةَمْحَر١۫ َو ْمُكَّنَوُلْبَنَل ٍءْيَشِب َنِّم ِفْوَخْلا َو ِعْوُجْلا َو ٍصْقَن َنِّم ِلاَوْمَاْلا َو ِسُفْنَاْلا َو ِتٰرَمَّثلا١ؕ َو ِرِّشَب َنْيِرِبّٰصلا 1. َو َكِٕىٰٓلوُا ُمُه َنْوُدَتْهُمْلا In the same way, carnal passions are such that God’s Word is needed for dissipating their boiling upsurge. At every step, man encounters circumstances which can be remedied only by the Word of God. When a person desires to turn to God, hundreds of impediments 1. And We will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient, who, when a mis- fortune overtakes them, say, ‘Surely, to Allah we belong and to Him shall we return. ’ It is these on whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy, and it is these who are rightly guided ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:156–158). [Publisher]