The Descent of the Messiah

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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The Descent of the Messiah — Page 142

THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH تا بدانی که کور و محجوبی سخت محروم مانده زین خوبی So that you may know that you are blind and vision-less and completely deprived of the goodness of faith. ذره ای نیست در تو از انوار شب دیجور را به ماه چه کار There is no light in you, and there is no affinity between a dark night and the moon. این خدای عجیب در دل تست که از و صد نبات ظلمت رست You have a strange “God” in your heart who gives rise to all شب تارست و دشت و بیم دوان kinds of darkness. چون بخوابی زغفلت ای نادان The night is dark, and there are dangers and predators in the woods, but you slumber away unaware. خیز و بر حال خود نگاه بکن خطر ره به بین و آه بکن Get up! Look at the condition you are in! Look at the dangers of this path and then lament. خیزد از نفس خود بپرس نشان که چه خواهد مراتب عرفان Arise, ask your own self for a sign; ask what the stages of cogni- sance require. چه یقین نزد اوست از آب حیات یا پسندید ورطه ی شبهات What certainty do you possess from the water of life; or do you prefer the abyss of doubt? 142