Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 561
Miscellaneous Notes 561 want done to yourself. Do not advise others to do what you your- self do not act upon. Keep trying to increase your knowledge and understanding. Free your heart from ignorance. Do not be hasty in levelling objections at someone. Hate does not remove hate but only increases it further. Love cools hatred and does away with it. 1 ْنَل َلاَنَّي َهّٰللا اَهُمْوُحُل َو اَل اَهُؤٓاَمِد َو ْنِكٰل ُهُلاَنَّي ىٰوْقَّتلا ْمُكْنِم Meaning that purifying the hearts is the true sacrifice. The sacrifice of flesh and blood is not true sacrifice. While common people sacrifice animals, the elect sacrifice their [own] hearts. But God has also not stopped these sacrifices so that it may be known that these sacrifices, too, are related to man. God has described the good things of Paradise in the guise of things that were cherished by the Arabs so that their hearts would be drawn towards it. In reality, those things are of a different nature and not things of this world. But it was necessary to describe them in this way so that the hearts may be drawn towards them. 2 ُلَثَم ِةَّنَجْلا ْيِتَّلا َدِعُو َنْوُقَّتُمْلا He who remains preoccupied in fulfilling his carnal desires utterly destroys himself. But he who walks on the true path, not only his body but his soul too will attain salvation. He who remains preoccupied in fulfilling his carnal desires utterly destroys himself. He not only puts his body in peril but destroys his soul as well. But he who walks on the right path and is not the follower 1. S u rah al- H ajj, 22:38 [Publisher] 2. A description of the Garden promised to the righteous ( S u rah Mu h ammad, 47:16). [Publisher] Buddhist book page 79