Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 322
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 322 A person who is in the grip of forbidden carnal passions is in the jaws of a dragon that has extremely toxic poison. Thus, it is obvious from this that, as the malady of miserliness is graver than the malady of vain pursuits, in the same way being caught in the claws of forbidden carnal passions, in comparison to the malady of miserliness, is a calam- ity graver than all other calamities, and is in need of a special mercy of God Almighty. When God Almighty wills to deliver someone from this calamity, He visits him with such a manifestation of His grandeur, awe, and power, as grinds down all forbidden carnal passions and then invests his heart with eagerness for His own superior love as a manifes- tation of His beauty. Just as a suckling baby, on being weaned, passes only one night in distress and soon forgets that milk such that it loathes suckling even if his mouth is put to the breast, a righteous man develops the same repulsion to the forbidden carnal passions when he is weaned away from the milk of the physical desire and is granted spiritual nour- ishment in its place. Then, after the fourth stage, is the fifth stage, the evils of which are intensely and dearly loved by the self that incites to evil. At this stage, only one struggle is left and the time approaches near when the angels of the Powerful and Glorious God would conquer the whole territory of this being, and bring it under their complete control, and disrupt the whole system of the ego, and devastate the territory of carnal fac- ulties, and humiliate and debase its chieftains, and destroy the earlier sovereignty. That is what happens when a government is toppled. [As the Holy Quran says:] 1 َّنِا َكْوُلُمْلا اَذِا اْوُلَخَد ًةَيْرَق اَهْوُدَسْفَا َو اْۤوُلَعَج َةَّزِعَا ۤاَهِلْهَا ًةَّلِذَا َوَكِلٰذَك َنْوُلَعْفَي This is the last trial and last battle for a believer with which all stages 1. Surely, kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and turn the highest of its people into the lowest. And thus will they do ( S u rah an-Naml, 27:35). [Publisher]