Hallmarks of the Saints — Page 15
H A D R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD A S 15 They traverse through canyons that the obese could never cross. They die only after they are to be succeeded by a people who are bestowed true knowledge and are righteous. Without fatigue they continue inviting the ignorant to their fountainhead. Everyone who hears their call hastens to them except those who are deaf and whose tongues are afflicted with disease and whose hearts are veiled so that they pay no heed. Such has been the practice of disbelievers that they turn a deaf ear to the call of the Messengers, no matter how painfully they call out to them; neither are they awakened by a faint sound nor by a vehement voice until the day of chastisement overtakes them unawares. Prophets strive hard to remove the cloud of dust from their eyes so that they might see, yet they sit still like a divorced woman, and disobey their Lord and turn away as if they know not, and lose their senses like the one whose speech is incomprehensible, and become immoral and foul-mouthed. وتون إال بعد أن ي ً ال جيوزها املثقَلون. وال اب ندامة ً وال يتأسّفون، وجازوا شِعا ُلِّفوا أَزْفَلة ً من الذين يُرزقون معرفة ً ويتّقون. ويدْعون كل َّ دائق إىل عينهم وال خي َّ ُم وجُن هن يسأمون، فيأتيهم كل من مسع نداءهم إال الذين صمّوا وذحَق لسا كذلك جرت عادة الكفرة، ما مسعوا نداء املرسلني ُم فهم ال يتوجّهون. و هن جَنا وإن كانوا يَصْلِقون، ومل يتيقّظوا حبسيس ٍ وال بصَهْصَلق ٍ حىت أخذهم العذاب وهم ال يشعرون. وجاهد النبيون لعل هللا يزيل صِيْقتَهم ولعلّهم يبصرون، ّم وأعرضوا كأهنم ال يعلمون. وطارت حواسّهم هب فقعدوا كامرأة ٍ طالق ٍ وعصوا ر