Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 299
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 299 Meaning: ‘I have created men and the jinn for the very purpose of worship. ’ Of course, such worship and constant presence before the Lord of Honour is not possible without personal love for Him. And by love here is not meant a one-sided affair; rather, what is meant is both the love of the Creator and the love of creation so that the fire of lighten- ing that falls upon the man who is ready to die and which also ema- nates from within such a man at such a time, should burn all human weaknesses, and joining together, they should take control of his whole spiritual being. This is that perfect way in which man can, completely and at each and every appropriate occasion, fulfil his trusts and pledges that I have outlined while describing the fifth stage of the spiritual being. The only difference is that while at the fifth stage man fulfils his obligations and pledges to God and His creatures out of taqw a [righteousness], at this stage he does so on account of the personal love that he has now devel- oped for God, and which has also evoked in him the love of the crea- tures of God. Such people fulfil all their obligations naturally and in the most becoming manner due to the Spirit that God has bestowed upon them. They are thus granted spiritual beauty—which is akin to man’s physical beauty—to a greater extent, because at the fifth stage the Spirit which is born out of personal love for God has not yet entered man, and so the beauty is not manifested to the fullest extent. But once the Spirit has entered the being, the beauty reaches its climax. It goes without saying that the splendour of beauty manifested by a dead body cannot equal that manifested by a handsome living being. As I have already stated, man possesses two-fold beauty: One, the beauty of conduct; that is to say, that a man in the discharge of all the trusts and covenants of God should be careful not to overlook anything connected with them, as suggested by the expression َ رٰعُوْن [ r a ‘ u n —‘watch- ful’] in the Holy Quran. It is equally important that man remain vigilant about fulfilling his trusts and pledges to God’s creatures. In short, he