Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 327
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 327 transcendent in His Being, in the same way, the perfect believer is hid- den upon hidden and transcendent beyond transcendent in his being. The world cannot attain his reality because he moves far away from the sphere of the world. It is remarkable that, after that holy change in the perfect believer—when he loses his self altogether for the sake of God and emerges from it donning a new garment of the holy change— God, who is Unchangeable, Ever-Living, and Self-Subsisting, makes a change in His being for his sake also. However, this does not mean that any change takes place in the eternal attributes of God; nay, He is Unchangeable from antiquity and eternity—but it is only a manifesta- tion of His Providence for the perfect believer. A change, the mystery of which we cannot comprehend, appears in God as well correspond- ing to the change in the believer, but this happens in a manner which does not soil God’s remaining Unchangeable with the dust of the crea- ture-state—He remains Unchangeable as He eternally is. However, the change which occurs at the time of the change in the believer is of the type spoken of in the statement: ‘When the believer moves towards God Almighty, God comes towards him with a faster movement. ’ Though it is obvious that as Allah the Exalted is not sub- ject to any changes, so is He also not subject to any movements. All these expressions are metaphorical and the need for their use arises because experience testifies that as a believer builds a new being—by self-abnegation, annihilation, and mortification in the cause of God Almighty—God also becomes new vis-à-vis the believer correspond- ing to the changes in him, and deals with him as He does not deal at all with others. God reveals to him of His kingdom and mysteries that which He does not reveal to others at all, and displays for his sake that which He does not display for the sake of others at all. He helps and supports him to such an extent that causes people to marvel. He shows extraordinary happenings for such a person, and displays miracles and establishes his supremacy in every respect. He places in him a power of attraction, whereby a whole world is drawn to him and only those remain unaffected who are overpowered by eternal misfortune.