Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 326
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 326 At this stage a framework is prepared and, thereafter, the Spirit of manifestation of God which means the personal love of the Lord of Honour—enters into such a believer together with the Holy Spirit and bestows a new life upon him and a new power is granted to him. All this happens under the influence of the Spirit, which at this stage, establishes a relationship with the believer but does not yet take up its abode in his heart. This is followed by the sixth stage of the spiritual being—the stage in which the personal love of the believer reaches its climax and draws to itself the personal love of Allah, the Lord of Glory. Thereupon, the personal love of God Almighty enters into the believer and envelops him, in consequence of which he is granted a new and extraordinary power. That power generates life in his faith like a soul entering a life- less body. Having entered the believer, it indeed acts like the soul. All faculties are illumined by it, and the support of the Holy Spirit assists the believer of this stature so that he is given access to matters and to knowledge that are beyond human ability. The believer of this stature, having traversed all stages of the pro- gress of faith, is designated in heaven as the Vicegerent of God on account of the excellences which he receives—by way of reflection—of the excellences of the Lord of Honour. Just as when a person stands before a mirror, all the features of his face are clearly reflected in it; similarly, a believer of this stature—who not only discards the self but carries the task of negating his being and discarding the self to such a degree of perfection that there remains nothing of his own being, and he becomes like a mirror—then all the features and all the attrib- utes of the Divine Being are comprehended in him. Just as it can be said that the mirror, which reflects all the features of the one standing before it, becomes his vicegerent; in the same way a believer, by hav- ing gathered within him the attributes and qualities of Allah by way of reflection, attains the station of the Khal i fatull a h [Vicegerent of God] and becomes the expression of the countenance of God by way of reflection. As God is Hidden upon hidden and Transcendent beyond