Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 363
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 363 may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. In it Allah the Exalted emphatically informs of His help and support and the attainment of the objectives of the faith: ‘Now O Prophet, praise and extol God, and seek forgiveness from God, for He is Taww a b [Oft-Returning with compassion]. ’ The mention of seeking forgiveness at this juncture means to point out that now the work of propagation has ended, and now you should pray to God that He should forgive if there has been any minimal lapse in the task of propagation. M u s a [Moses] too, in the Torah, cries recounting his errors. And as for the one whom the Christians have made into ‘God’, a man once addressed him as ‘Good Master!’ and the latter replied: ‘Why callest thou me good? There is no one good but God. ’ This has been the custom of all the Auliy a ’. All declared istighf a r to be their practice. Satan is the exception. رفس ہتشک دنچاں ہک بش رادنہ ادن ادن امدنہ وا ہک رخواشں ہگ رحس They killed the horse having ridden it hard through the night, And in the morning they lament that they have been left behind. His Statement— In order to justify the prophecy in Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya and to paint it to be about an earthquake, and to establish, thereby, his knowledge of the unseen and prophethood, he (meaning, this humble one) has claimed that, through the prophecy in Bar a h i n- e-Ahmadiyya, he had been given the information from God with great clarity that it implied an earthquake; but, due to the fear of abuse and distrust of people, he concealed it and did not translate the Arabic into Urdu and publish it. And by virtue of this act he (meaning I) says that he was guilty of a grave sin against God and remained firm and persis- tent in this very sin for twenty-five years.