Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 274
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 274 also indulge in every innovation. Such are the signs of mendicancy that they exhibit, and yet their leprosy-stricken hearts are devoid of the love of God, with a few exceptions of course. The truly righteous whose actions are spontaneous and heartfelt—and not for ostenta- tion and display—are exempt from these remarks of mine. In any case, what this proves is that crying and supplication is not something that is unique to Godly people; rather, it is a human faculty that comes into play at its proper place or otherwise. At times a person reads a fictitious story and he knows that it is all fiction, such as a novel and yet when he comes to a tragic turn of events, he loses control over his heart and is unable to restrain the gush of tears. The power of such tragic stories is such that at times a person starts to relate it and at one point his eyes well up with tears, and his voice also becomes like that of a weeping person, and suddenly he cannot restrain his emotions. He experiences the kind of satisfaction and pleasure that comes from such crying even though he knows well that the basis upon which he weeps is invalid and is merely fiction. Why is this so? What is the reason that lies behind it? It is because the faculty of crying and pathos that resides within man is not con- cerned with the truth or untruth of an event. It will come into play whenever such conditions exist, and man takes a kind of pleasure in this state whether he is a believer or a disbeliever. This is why in unholy gatherings that comprise of all kinds of innovations, licentious people, who adorn themselves in the garbs of faq i rs, upon hearing eulogies and verses, start to dance and get into a state of trance and ecstasy and cry- ing. They experience their own form of pleasure and think that they have thus become one with God. And yet the pleasure they experience is like the pleasure that a fornicator might experience with a prostitute. Yet another similarity between the sperm and the state of humility and fervour in Prayer is that just as a man’s sperm enters the body of his wife or another woman, at the time of ejaculation it flows freely just like the flowing of tears in a state of fervour and anguished supplication.