Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 297
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 297 Hence, it would not be improper to say, by way of metaphor, that God at this stage enters into the believer and penetrates into his every fibre, making his heart into His throne. So the believer does not see by his own spirit but rather he sees by the Spirit of God, and it is by His Spirit that he hears and speaks and attacks his enemies. This is so because he is at this stage at the station of self-annihilation and destruc- tion of his own being, and the Spirit of God manifests itself upon him with His personal love and grants him a second life. This is the moment that he becomes the spiritual embodiment of the verse: 1 َّمُث ُهٰنْاَشْنَا اًقْلَخ َرَخٰا١ؕ َكَرٰبَتَف ُهّٰللا ُنَسْحَا َنْيِقِلٰخْلا This then is the sixth stage of the spiritual being that I have described above. Corresponding to this is the sixth stage of the physical being, and it is described by the same verse cited above with reference to the spiritual being: َّمُث ُهٰنْاَشْنَا اًقْلَخ َرَخٰا١ؕ َكَرٰبَتَف ُهّٰللا ُنَسْحَا َنْيِقِلٰخْلا It means: ‘Having created him once, We developed man into another creation. ’ The word ‘another’ is meant to convey that this birth is so unfathomable as to be beyond the confines of human intelligence and very far from his understanding. In other words, the spirit that is infused into the body after its completion, both in a spiritual and phys- ical sense, is so profound that all the philosophers and materialists are left to wonder about its nature. When they could not find their way to the reality, they started speculating. Some went so far as to deny the existence of the soul altogether, while others declared it to be eternal and uncreated. What Allah the Exalted says here is that the ‘spirit’ is also a creation of God, but it is beyond worldly comprehension and 1. Then We developed it into another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:15). [Publisher]