Selected Persian Poems of the Promised Messiah (as) — Page 169
Blind intellect Blind intellect وتان و اتب ا � ب ح ُ ک را انوتاانن اتاشنن �ی�ادنب وخد زان ےب اشنن How can the weak have the strength and ability To find, on their own, a trace of the Transcendent One’s existence? رباہ د وج�ی�َ رامنہ ِ وکران لقع وخماہ ِ وکران داشن از رربہی The intellect of the blind itself seeks a guide to find the way, Do not seek guidance from the intellect of the blind. لقع ِ ام ازرہب ِ زاری و اکبتس دخاتس از اہجتل ِ آزار دعف Our intellect is only for wailing and weeping [before God]. Relief from the afflictions of ignorance is from God. ہک رگ�ی�َ د زار زار خ ی� � لقع ِ لفط اتس ا �ہ�ار خ �ی� ز د �ی�ا�ی� خ � زُج امدر ر � ی �ِ ش س A child only has the sense to cry bitterly, But by no means will he have milk except from the mother. Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part 4, R uh an i Khaz a’ in, vol. 1, p. 387, Footnote Number Eleven; see also English translation, Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part 4, p. 162, Footnote Number Eleven, published by Islam International Publication Ltd. 2016