Hallmarks of the Saints — Page 11
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS أغنياء ثم يتمسكنون، ويرقلون في سُبُل الله ولا يركلون. وترى دموعهم مُرْمَغِلَّةً لا ترقاً ولا يميلون إلى أَوْن ولا يتبخترون. ومن علاماتهم أنّ القدر يمشي إليهم على قدم المخاتلة، ويُنبئهم الله بقدره إذا قدر عليهم نزول البلية، ويُختعِلُ إليهم الموت ولا يأتي كالحوادث المفاجئة، كأنّ الله يعافُ أن يهلكهم ويتردّد عند قبض نفوسهم المطمئنة. ومن علاماتهم أنهم يُنصرون ولا يُخذلون، ولا يحجز هوى بينهم وبين ربهم ولا يُتركون. ولا يُفارقون الخضرة ولو يُخَرْذَلون. ولا يكونون كخرقاء ذات نيقة بل II yet they appear poor. They are fast in the ways of Allah and do not need to be spurred. You see their tears flowing endlessly. They neither incline towards indolence nor do they walk arrogantly. AMONG THEIR SIGNS IS that destiny approaches them gently and whenever a trial is set to befall them, God apprises them of it in advance. Death comes to them slow and it never occurs like a sudden accident, as if God dislikes to cause them to die and hesi- tates to take their peaceful souls. AMONG THEIR SIGNS IS that they are helped, never to be for- saken. No desire intervenes between them and their Lord and they are never abandoned. They do not part with their Lord even if they are ripped apart. Nor are they like those who boast despite being ignorant; rather, they are endowed with knowledge and enlightenment. God Himself manifests their light and they are