Arba'in — Page 31
Number Two 31 not heard of any such thing from our elders. ’ And your Lord is Powerful. He pulls towards Himself whom He wills. We have honoured the children of A dam and have exalted some of them above others. Tell them, ‘Light has come to you from Allah, so do not reject it if you are believers. ’ A man of Persian 1 ٭ descent has refuted those who have disbelieved and have obstructed [people] from the path of Allah. The book of the Wal i [Friend of Allah] is the Dhulfaqar of ‘Ali [the sword of Ali]. Had faith ascended to the Pleiades, he would have [reached there and] brought it down. Its oil might well-nigh glow forth on its own even though fire does not even touch it. He approached God and marched forward till he stood between two bows. 1. ٭ Remember that apparently this humble one’s lineage belongs to the Mughal race, and in historical records there is no mention that it was from a lineage of Persian descent. However, in a few documents it is found that some of our paternal grandmothers were from the right- eous and noble descent of S a d a t [Holy Prophet’s descendants from his daughter Hadrat F at imah]. Now, from the words of God it came to be known that in reality our family was actually of Persian descent. So, we believe in it with full certainty, because no one knows the factual reality of families better than God. His knowledge is surely correct and certain, and that of others is conjectural and dubious. Author The Station of Muhammad—under whose reflection is the Promised Messiah Th e A r c o f C r e a t i o n Th e A r c o f A l l a h