Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 267
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 267 1. ْدَق َحَلْفَا َنْوُنِمْؤُمْلا َنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ْيِف ْمِهِتاَلَص َنْوُعِشٰخ Meaning that: Those believers have attained their desires who adopt humility and meekness in their Prayers and in every type of their remembrance of Allah, and who occupy themselves in remembering Him with true fervour and supplication, passion, and anguish. This stage of humility, which has been indicated above, is the first stage in the development of the spiritual being. In other words, it is the first seed that is sown in the soil of servitude to God, and it carries in it— in a compact form—all the faculties, attributes, features, beauty, and characteristics of the spirit, which, in the fifth and sixth stages, manifest themselves in the perfect man in a attractive manner. 2 ٭ Since this stage, 1. S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:2–3 [Publisher] 2. ٭ The fifth stage, as I have stated, is the one described in the verse: َو َنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ْمِهِتٰنٰمَاِل َو ْمِهِدْهَع َنْوُعٰر [And who are watchful of their trusts and their covenants. ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:9)]. And the sixth stage, as mentioned before, is that outlined in the verse: َو َنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ىٰلَع ْمِهِتٰوَلَص َنْوُظِفاَحُي [And who diligently guard the observance of their Prayers ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:10)]. And this fifth stage has been placed in juxtaposition to the fifth stage of man’s physical development described in the verse: اَنْوَسَكَف َمٰظِعْلا اًمْحَل [Then We clothed the bones with flesh ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:15)]. And the sixth stage is juxtaposed with the sixth stage of the physical develop- ment as referred to in the verse: َّمُث ُهٰنْاَشْنَا اًقْلَخ َرَخٰا [Then We developed it into another creation ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:15)]. (Author)