Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 298
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 298 just as the philosophers of this world are unaware of the spirit that is bestowed by God upon the physical human form at the sixth stage of its being, so are they devoid of the knowledge of the spirit that the true believer is granted at the sixth stage of his spiritual being and they have adopted varying creeds in this regard as well. Many started to worship the people who had been bestowed this spirit and declared them to be eternal and uncreated and deified them. And many denied the very existence of people who reach this stage, and refused to believe that man is even granted such a spirit. But an intelligent person will readily understand that as man is the best of creation, and as God has—by granting him eminence over all birds and beasts of the earth, and by bestowing upon him mastery over all of them, and by having granted him intelligence and understand- ing, and having infused him with a thirst for gaining His cognizance— shown that man was created for the purpose of loving God. Why then should it be denied that having reached the stage of personal love with God Almighty, he should also progress to such a stage that God’s love falling upon his love in the form of a Spirit should remove all his weaknesses? As regards the sixth stage of the spiritual being, Allah the Exalted has said: 1 َو َنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ىٰلَع ْمِهِتٰوَلَص َنْوُظِفاَحُي Accordingly, man should demonstrate eternal obedience and earnest supplication and servitude so that in this way he may fulfil the purpose of his creation, as Allah the Exalted says: 2 َو اَم ُتْقَلَخ َّنِجْلا َو َسْنِاْلا اَّلِا ِنْوُدُبْعَيِل 1. And who are strict in the observance of their Prayers ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:10). [Publisher] 2. S u rah adh-Dh a riy a t, 51:57 [Publisher]