Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 325
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 325 operation of all these faculties and organs is not directed by his desire, but by the will of God—nothing of his own will should remain; rather, the will of God should work through them. His self should be in the hand of God Almighty like a corpse is in the hand of the living. He should dispossess himself of his volition and complete control of God Almighty should be established over his being, so much so, that by Him should he see, and by Him should he hear, and by Him should he speak, and by Him should he move or stop. The minutest impurities of the ego, which cannot be observed even with a microscope, should be removed, leaving only the spirit. In short, the protection of God should envelop him and should isolate him from his own being; he should have no dominion left over his being and all the dominion should belong to God. All car- nal incitement should become extinct and the will of God should rage in his being. The previous governance should be totally uprooted and another government should establish itself in his heart. The house of selfishness should be laid waste and the camp of the Lord of Honour should be erected. Divine awe and might should uproot, from the foul land, all the plants that were watered from the foul spring of the ego, and replant them in the in the holy ground of seeking the pleasure of the Lord of Honour. All the desires and designs and ambitions should become subordi- nated to God. All the structures of the self that incites to evil should be demolished and razed to the ground, and such a palace of purity and holiness be erected in the heart that the Lord of Honour may descend and His Spirit may dwell therein. Only then could it be said that a per- son has restored those trusts that the True Bountiful has committed to him. Then would this verse be truly applicable to such a person: 1 َو َنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ْمِهِتٰنٰمَاِل َو ْمِهِدْهَع َنْوُعٰر 1. S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:9 [Publisher]