Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 369
SuB-Footnote Number Three 369 meaning. During this reflection, I was overcome by a light slumber and the meaning was made clear during that slumber, the details of which follow. Danuww [ascent] means nearness to Allah and nearness does not refer to physical movement in space. On the contrary, man is said to be muqarrab-e-il a h i [the one who is near to Allah] when he totally separates himself from his own will, ego, obstinacies, and other people and then loses himself in divine love and submission from head to toe and keeps himself completely aloof from everything other than God and plunges himself into the ocean of divine love so that no trace of ego and self-conceit remains in him. And as long as he does not cleanse himself of the stain of his being and as long as he does not adorn himself with the ornament of baq a bill a h [being sustained by God] he cannot have the ability to attain nearness [to God]. And the rank of baq a bill a h is achieved only when the love of God becomes the sole food of man and his condition becomes such that he cannot survive at all without His remembrance, and when he realizes that if his heart is occupied by something other than God, it is tantamount to his death and it becomes vividly manifest to him that he lives with Him. And, he is so drawn towards God that his heart remains occu- pied in divine remembrance at all times and he experiences the pangs of His love at every moment. And such aversion wells up in his heart towards everyone [and everything] except God, as if he has personal enmity towards them and he instinctively feels painful to even think of inclining towards them. When this condition is established, then his heart, on which descends the divine light, will be fully cleansed and the divine names and attributes will be reflected in it and, conse- quently, another excellence which is tadall a [descent] will be realized in the person of the ‘a rif [one cognizant of divine matters]. Tadall a means that, having adorned oneself with the likeness of divine attrib- utes, one descends towards God’s creatures with mercy and compas- sion, as does the Most Gracious, Most Merciful One. Since the excel- lences of danuww are the necessary precondition for the excellences