Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 359
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 359 to write it again and again. اتس رحےف سب اتس. سک ارگ در اخہن [One call is enough to know if somebody is at home. ] His Statement— The ‘Krishna of Qadian’ has lied in these three sentences. The first is the sentence mentioned above that has already been answered. The second was my statement that ‘after the earth- quake, the thought crossed my mind over and over that I had com- mitted a grave sin1 ٭ for not having publicized the prophecy of the earthquake as much as I should have. ’ And the third is the statement that ‘although I knew at that time that my writing would not move the hearts to take proper precautions, still I was beset by sorrow for not having adequately publicised the news that had been given to me by All-Knowing, All-Wise God. 1. ٭ Maulaw i Muhammad H usain has been very jubilant over my statement that ‘I thought again and again that I committed a very great sin’. Even though he calls himself a maulaw i , he does not know that perfect insight for a man is that, before his Glorious God, he should hold himself guilty on every occa- sion. This is the practice of Prophets. It is only Satan who does not show hu- mility before God Almighty. The anguish and grief—the crying and wailing that the Prophets did—was for this very reason that they felt that they had committed a sin that they did not discharge the trust of conveying the mes- sage of God as it deserved. To them all honour consisted in confessing this shortcoming before their Lord and Master. All the istighf a r [seeking of for- giveness] offered by our Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was on this basis alone that he was extremely fearful that he did not perform the task assigned to him—the task of propagation and the task of vigorous striving in the way of God—the way it deserved. This, despite the fact that no one performed this task as well as the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, did. But he had extreme fear of the glory of God Almighty and the awe of God in his heart. For this very reason he oc- cupied himself with perpetual istighf a r. We find in the Torah too: ‘And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth and he said “O Lord… par- don our iniquity and our sin. ”’ (Exodus 34:9) The Prophet Saul said, ‘Now I beg you, forgive my sin’ (Samuel 15:25). And Prophet David says to God Almighty, ‘For I acknowledge my transgressions’ See Psalms 51:3. (Author)