Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 30
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 30 Supplicate, saying, O God, grant me progress towards ever higher stages of knowledge. And then He says: 1 Part Number 15 — ْنَم َناَك ْيِف ٖۤهِذٰه ىٰمْعَا َوُهَف يِف ِةَرِخٰاْلا ىٰمْعَا َو ُّلَضَا اًلْيِبَس Meaning that, whosoever is blind in this world and does not develop insight into divine knowledge will remain blind in the Hereafter as well; nay, he will be worse than the blind. Then He teaches the prayer: 2 Part Number 1 — اَنِدْهِا َطاَرِّصلا َمْيِقَتْسُمْلا َطاَرِص َنْيِذَّلا َتْمَعْنَا ْمِهْيَلَع Meaning that, O God, the Exalted, the Maker, manifest to us the straight path that You have shown to all people of excellence who were recipients of Your grace and favour. Since the straight path of the people of excellence is that, unlike the blind, they search for verities with true insight, the essence of this prayer would therefore be: ‘O God, grant us collectively, all kinds of true knowledge, true insights, profound secrets, and subtle verities that You have been granting individually to all people of excellence in the world from time to time. ’ Note that in this supplication too, it is knowledge and wisdom that have been sought from God—knowledge which had been severally bestowed on different people of the world. In short, though God Almighty has laid down the principle of salvation in a very lucid and unambiguous manner in His Book—so that all people, literate or illiterate, can comprehend and understand it equally without encountering any kind of difficulty or confusion— yet, with regard to the subtleties and sublime secrets of divine knowl- edge, the All-Wise One has so willed that man should strive to discover them so that this very labour on his part may prove to be the cause of his self-perfection, because the sustenance and existence of all human 1. S u rah Ban i Isr a ’ i l, 17:73 [Publisher] 2. S u rah al-F a ti h ah, 1:6–7 [Publisher]