Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 150
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 150 instead of truth, foul beliefs and practices will be prevalent among them. This would be their water which they will drink. They will have no light whatsoever and will wallow in darkness. And as is clear, this is exactly the condition of the Christian faith today as described by the Holy Quran, and the great centre of Christianity is also in the Western countries. Then, Allah Almighty says: َّمُث َعَبْتَا اًبَبَس ىّٰۤتَح اَذِا َغَلَب َعِلْطَم ِسْمَّشلا اَهَدَجَو ُعُلْطَت ىٰلَع ٍمْوَق ْمَّل ْلَعْجَن ْمُهَّل ْنِّم اَهِنْوُد اًرْتِس 1 َكِلٰذَك َو ْدَق اَنْطَحَا اَمِب ِهْيَدَل اًرْبُخ That is, Dhul-Qarnain —i. e. the Promised Messiah—who will be equipped with every means, shall follow another path; that is, he will observe the state of the people of the East, and will discover a people at the place of the rising of the Sun of Truth who will be so ignorant that they will have no means of protecting themselves from the glare of the sun. That is, they will be scorched by their worship of external form and extremism, and they will be unaware of the truth. Dhul-Qarnain — meaning the Promised Messiah—will have all the means of true peace and happiness of which We are aware, but the people will not accept them. They will have no shelter against the glare of their extremism— neither house nor shady trees, nor suitable clothes to protect them from the heat. In this way, the rising Sun of Truth will bring about their destruction. This is a parable for the people who have before them the light of the Sun of Guidance, unlike those whose ‘sun’ has already set, but they derive no benefit from it; only their skins are burnt, their complexion is darkened, and they even lose their eyesight. 2 ٭ 1. S u rah al-Kahf, 18:90–92 [Publisher] 2. ٭ Here God Almighty means to reveal that there will be three groups of peo- ple at the time of the Promised Messiah. One group will adopt the path of extreme neglect and lose all light. The second group will adopt the path of